26 THE WORLD OF ICE.

but ever since I tuck this craft in tow, I’ve gone to
leeward like a tub. In fact, I find there’s only one
way of going ahead with my Poll, and that is right
before the wind! I used to yaw about a good deal
at first, but she tuck that out o’ me in a day or two.
If I put the helm only so much as one stroke to
starboard, she guv’ a tug at the tow-rope that brought
the wind dead aft again; so I’ve gi’n it up, and lashed
the tiller right amid-ships.”

So Buzzby did not accompany his old commander ;
he did not even so much as suggest the possibility of
it; but he shook his head with great solemnity, as he
stood with Fred, and Mrs, Bright, and Isobel, at the
end of the pier, gazing at the brie, with one eye very
much screwed up, and a wistful expression in the
other, while the graceful craft spread out her canvas
and bent over to the breeze.