Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848
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Various. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848
THE LATE MARIA BROOKS
THE CRUISE OF THE RAKER
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
THE SOUL'S DREAM
THE MAID OF BOGOTA
TO THE EAGLE
FIEL A LA MUERTE, OR TRUE LOVE'S DEVOTION
THE BLOCKHOUSE
THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
SUMMER
DESCRIPTION OF A VISIT TO NIAGARA
SONNET
AUNT MABLE'S LOVE STORY
TO ERATO
THE LABORER'S COMPANIONS
THE ENCHANTED KNIGHT
KORNER'S SISTER
THE MAN WHO WAS NEVER HUMBUGGED
THE SISTERS
BRUTUS IN HIS TENT
TO VIOLET
"THINK NOT THAT I LOVE THEE." A BALLAD
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS
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It was a dark and cloudy afternoon near the close of the war of 1812-15. A little vessel was scudding seaward before a strong sou'wester, which lashed the bright waters of the Delaware till its breast seemed a mimic ocean, heaving and swelling with tiny waves. As the sky and sea grew darker and darker in the gathering shades of twilight, the little bark rose upon the heavy swell of the ocean, and meeting Cape May on its lee-beam, shot out upon the broad waste of waters, alone in its daring course, seeming like the fearless bird which spreads its long wings amid the fury of the storm and the darkness of the cloud.
Upon the deck, near the helm, stood the captain, whom we introduce to our readers as George Greene, captain of the American privater, Raker. He was a weather-bronzed, red-cheeked, sturdy-built personage, with a dark-blue eye, the same in color as the great sea over which it was roving with an earnest and careful glance, rather as if in search of a strange sail, than in apprehension of the approaching storm. His countenance denoted firmness and resolution, which he truly possessed in an extraordinary degree, and his whole appearance was that of a hardy sailor accustomed to buffet with the storm and laugh at the fiercest wave.
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So saying, he downed one of the pieces of pork, which as speedily came up again.
"Now drink, and be quick about it, or I shall drink it for you."
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