28 © THE FISHERMAN’S BOY.

ened at seeing the boat coming on, and he
flapped his wings, and rose slowly from the
water. Jock watched him. He wheeled
around in the air over their heads, and then
finally went down again towards the water,
and lighted in the bay away behind them,
and yet not exactly behind them, but con-
siderably to the left.

“<¢Mhere, where is he now?’ said the
fisherman.

“¢Hfe is on the larboard quarter,’ said Jock.

“¢Right,’ said the fisherman. ‘ You're
a pretty good scholar. If he had lighted on
one side of us here, to the left, about off op-
posite to us, we should call that on the lar-
board beam; because it is where the beams
of a vessel point, which go across from side
to side.’

“¢And off on the other side is on the
starboard beam, I suppose,’ said Jock.

“Yes, said the fisherman; ‘and if any
thing is right before us, it. is ahead, and if
it is right behind us, it is astern. Now, Jock,
you stand up, and take a look all around,

‘and tell me what you see, in all these di-

‘Tections.’
«©¢ Where shall I begin?’ said Jock.