Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 260
white spreads of the berths below.That was quite too much for the captains pa- 9=] MIDSHIPMAN, THE CAT. 727 tience. Middy was summoned aft, and, aftera sound rating, was hustled into the dinghywhich was moored astern, and shoved off tothe full length of her painter. The punish-ment was a severe one… … ■^V — THEV PREPARED TO WELCOME HIM. yacht he spied, just about four inches out ofwater, a little shoulder of the rudder. Thatwas enough for him. He did not stop to thinkwhether he would be any better off there. Itwas a part of the yacht, and that was home.So overboard he went, swam for therudder,…
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