two or three men stood ready with ropes tied around them, asnd when I came near they dashed in and seized me, and we were dragged out by the rope.”
“Dear me!” said Hal; “that sounds pretty dreadful, I don’t much think I will be a sailor after all.”
Andrew smiled. “It is not a pleasant life at all; at least I never found it so.”
By and by the days began to grow shorter, and papa and mamma began to throw out hints about school. Hal and Dolly tried very hard not to hear them. It was so pleasant those bright September days that they wished they would never come to an end. All the summer visitors had gone and it seemed to the children as if the beach belonged to them.