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disconcerting itey of the

railway accident repeated

I began to observe The weather was a little hts of the French coast could clearly be seen

The ship rolled in a short sea; her engines had stopped; she still had

the fore,

leaning over, and with his hands round hisorders to

an officer below The sailors were still struggling to lower the boat

froers stood about, aimless, perhaps

terror-struck, but now for the most part quiet and self-contained

Some of them had life-belts That was the sum of my observations

A rocket streamed upwards into the sky, and another and another, then

one caught the rigging, and, deflected, whizzed down again within a

few feet ofin a silly,

futile way I threw the end of

"So this is a shipwreck," I ejaculated "And I'ot

myself safely off the railway only to fall into the sea What a d----d

shame!"