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Advise that we should appoint a leader. You see, mates," he continued,

addressing himself to the company in general,
"there's no possibility of a ship gettin' along without a captain, or an army without a general. If we was going off to a wreck now, with or without a lifeboat, I would claim a sort o' right to be coxswain in virtue o' past experience; but, as we've now begun a sort o' shore-goin' business, which requires a deal o' general
knowledge, besides seamanship, an' as Dr Hayward has got that by edication, I move that we make him our leader." "Right you are, Bob," said Joe Slag. ("As he always
is," said Nellie, _sotto voce_.) "So I second the move--if that's the reg'lar

way to do it." "Hear, hear!" said every one with right good will, and a gleam of pride flashed from Eva's pretty brown eyes as her husband was thus unanimously appointed leader
of the shipwrecked band. Like a sensible man, knowing

his capacity, he at once accepted
the command without any display of undue modesty, and
proved his fitness by at once going to work. "The first thing, then, is to thank God for our deliverance, which we all do, I am sure, most heartily." This was received with a responsive "Amen" from every one--not even excepting Black Ned. "Next, we must find fresh water and boil a bit of pork--" "Ah, then, we haven't a kittle!" exclaimed O'Connor.

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