THE SEA-SERPENT. 
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a bound, the serpent came; rushing out of the si¬ 
lent sea, his eyes like flashing, meteor’s flame! 
u Turn not those lovely eyes on me!” — that 
was all Miss Wood coild scream, as he knocked 
her overboard into the ocean, and seized the 
captain ere he could dream what had caused this 
awful commotion. Into the waves the sailors 
leap ; into the sea the serpent is leaping ; some 
that watch, and some that sleep, never ore 
shall wake from sleeping, — never, till the last 
trump, sweeping over earth and over sea, wakes 
them to immortality ! 
Hunt was convinced, by the screaming that 
followed, that those who jumped over were in¬ 
stantly swallowed. The water flew over the 
yacht’s white deck ; her foresail and boom were 
a perfect wreck ; nothing was left for poor Hunt 
to do, but to hunt up the party and muster the 
crew. Skip, and Miss Wood, and five others, not 
found, were lost, and, of course, either eaten or 
drowned ; one a pert chambermaid, — the ladies 
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regret her, though they know that in Boston 
