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Gradually pulling in the line, Harry and Tom drew their chum to the side of the Fortuna. The figure in his arms appeared perfectly lifeless. Quickly they prepared to take both on board. "Make a bowline in a bight in that line," directed Harry. "Pass it down to Arnold and let him send us up the man first." "Right-o," responded Tom, quickly preparing the line.

Then pretending to take an imaginary piece of money from Charley, he went on, "Your chum is on a boat called the 'Fortuna. He is in the hands of friends who wish him well. He has been seeking diligently for you but cannot find you. Where have you been?" "Well," laughed Charley, amused at the joke, "I've been sailing around and around and around.

At length the boys produced the brushes and proceeded to scrub the Fortuna until she shone as Tom put it "like a new bottle." Jack volunteered to act as cook, drafting Arnold to assist because of the extra number of mouths to be fed. Doright stayed about the kitchenette, taking in every detail of the splendidly equipped boat.

I was still more surprised, and took the liberty of asking her name, and found her to be the famous "Shepherdess," Maria Fortuna, of the Academy of Arcadians. I had read the beautiful stanzas she had written in praise of Metastasio. I told her so, and she brought me the poet's reply in manuscript. Full of admiration, I addressed myself to her alone, and all her plainness vanished.

Here is a partial list of those whose names we do not find: Minerva, Diana, Venus, Fortuna, Hercules, Castor, Pollux, Apollo, Mercury, Dis, Proserpina, Aesculapius, the Magna Mater. And yet their absence is not surprising when we realise that almost all of the gods in this list represent phases of life with which Rome in this early period was absolutely unacquainted.

The husbandman cannot command either the nature of the earth or the seasons of the weather, no more can the physician the constitution of the patient, and the variety of accidents. There is no science or art till that step is taken. 'In these things, therefore, it is left unto us to proceed by APPLICATION. Vincenda est omnis fortuna ferendo: and so likewise Vincenda est omnis natura ferendo.

It has been usual to derive Fors, Fortuna, from ferre, the goddess who brings, although she takes away as well. If ferre were the root, we should have further proof of the immeasurable fertility to which we owe such words as fortune and misfortune.

And in the earlier part of the time in question, of the eight months, that is, from the March in which the young artist came to Ravenna, to the November in which Signor Ercole Stadione had made his journey to Milan there had been plenty of joking and raillery about Ludovico's enthralment by the "bella Veneziana," and many attempts to compete with him for so very attractive and desirable a "buona fortuna."

The sorrowful destiny of the "infelice Duca," who had once boasted himself to be the favourite of fortune "Il Figlio della Fortuna" became the burden of popular poetry, alike in France and Italy. Jean d'Auton himself gives vent to his feelings in an elegy on the vanity of earthly glories

"Port your helm," commanded Jack to Arnold who was at the wheel. Dimly the boys made out the bulk of a schooner on their port bow, her sails slatting and rigging flying as she came up into the wind. As the Fortuna fell off they looked at the schooner and saw the main boom swinging across the deck, strike a man standing near the rail. "Man overboard.