298 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

Antelope. He asserted that in a dream he had seen one of the
roosters in the hen-coops marching out upon the deck, there to
inveigle a crew of timorous rats into his service. The captain’s
flat cap had been appropriated by this aspiring rooster, and he was
strutting about proudly. The doctor also thought it was not safe
to remain on board’a ship whose crew in the night might be over-
powered by such a band of mutinous as well as ambitious beings.