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ARAM. 'Tis a lasting quarrel. We sailed the next day, and, after one month more of unsuccessful cruising, arrived safe at Halifax, where I was informed that an old friend of my father's, Sir Hurricane Humbug, of whom some mention has already been made in this work, had just arrived. He was not in an official character, but had come out to look after his own property.
Persons with such hair generally have intense feelings love and hate intensely yet treat them kindly, and you have the warmest friends, but ruffle them, and you raise a hurricane on short notice. This is doubly true of auburn curls. It takes but little kindness, however, to produce a calm and render them as fair as a Summer morning. Red-headed people in general are not given to hold a grudge.
We will make Wilbur sit up in front so that we can see he don't grub the eats. He's inside lancing the management for a group of free lunch and a package of liquid refreshments. Here he comes now. Bless his young heart he's got his arms full. Ain't it grand to be loved by such a man? "No, Wilbur, you get up in the hurricane deck and we all will sit in the caboose. Have we got everything?
"On the night of the nineteenth, we had a fearful storm. It seemed worse than the hurricane we had on the El Dorado. All night long we thought that every minute would end us, and we lay huddled in misery, not caring much whether we went down or not. But the next morning, we set part of the sail again, and at noon that day the captain took a sight and found that we were in latitude 27º 8' south.
Occasionally, however, his feelings would overcome him, and then he would burst forth into a hurricane of lamentations. "The finest town in the country," he would say; "and look at what we write! I could double our income in a week if the old man would let me. But he won't.
"Generous boy, to plead for your friends rather than for yourself. But I am strong enough, thank God, to help you all. You shall go to West Point. Your friend shall go to school and then to college," said Old Hurricane, with a burst of honest enthusiasm. "And where shall I go, sir?" inquired Cap.
The writer has frequently observed a hundred cubic feet of soil matter, some of it taken from the depth of a yard or more, thus uplifted into the air. In the path of a hurricane or tornado we may sometimes find thousands of acres which have been subjected to this rude overturning a natural ploughing.
Some of the party had come over from the coach, and Lord Robert was jotting down in a notebook the particulars of betting commissions for his fair companions. "And am I to be honoured with a commission from the Hurricane?" he asked. "Yes; what's the price for Ellan Vannin?" "Come down to five to one, pretty lady." "Get me one to five that he's going to lose."
We took every precaution in anticipation of our dangerous enemy, but for once they were not needed: either the hurricane did not break out at all, or else it broke out at a great distance from us; for we were only visited by a trifling storm of no long duration. On the 8th of July we again reached the vicinity of Macao, and entered the Straits of Lema.
RACHAEL. Has Nevis been torn from her foundations? MISTRESS FAWCETT. It was an earthquake. A hurricane tugs at the very roots of the earth. Pray heaven that the fires in Nevis are out. But we have no time to think on imaginary horrors. Look to the windows. Run and see. And examine all the other windows before you return. Remember that if the wind gets in, the roof will go.
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