Chapter 28 John Cropper, Ahoy!

A wet sheet and a flowing sea,

A wind that follows fast

And fills the white and rustling sail,

And bends the gallant mast!

And bends the gallant mast, my boys,

While, like the eagle free,

Away the good ship flies, and leaves

Old England on the lee.

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

Mary had not understood that Charley was not coming with