Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 141
averseto move. Attention appeared to interfere with theirwalking on the ice; and each held his breath in ex-pectation. They saw that the schooner, then less thana cables length from them, was close to the rocks; andthe next shock, if anything like the last, must over-whelm her. To their… … shelf of rocks almost unharmed. Not a man had lefther; but there she was, placed on the shore, some twenty feetabove the sur-face of the sea,on rocks wornsmooth by theaction of thewaves! Hadthe season beenpropitious, anddid the injury stop here, it might have been possibleto get the craft into the…
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