“Steady! That is, keep her as she is.” Relieved of a portion of the pressure on the mainsail, she did not heel over much under the shock. Dory was about to ask Oscar how he would come about, when a tremendous yell came up the lake from the other students.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE UPSETTING OF THE MONKEY, AND ITS LESSON.
“The Monkey has upset!” exclaimed Dory, considerably excited by the catastrophe.
“You had better take the helm, Dory, for we can’t wait to make any mistakes,” added Oscar, as he gave the tiller to the skipper.
“Bolly is determined to drown himself, and he will do it if he keeps on trying. I did not think he had pluck enough to go out in a sailboat again without a skipper.”
“But the rowboats are all around him, and they are all pulling towards the Monkey,” continued Oscar. “But that sailboat don’t sink, as you say the other did.”
“Perhaps she has not ballast enough to carry her down. She is lying flat on her side, and the fellows that were in her are clinging to her. They are safe for a while if they will only hold on,” said the skipper of the Goldwing when he had taken in the situation.
The Goldwing was within five hundred feet of the Monkey when the latter went over; and, before any of the rowboats reached the wreck, the schooner was alongside of her. The skipper had taken in the foresail; and, as she rounded-to, Oscar let go the jib-halyard, and Dory lowered the mainsail. With the boat-hook Oscar got hold of the wreck, and the schooner was hauled alongside.