Unbending the rigid folds of the parchment cover, I found it to be a commission, under the hand and seal of Governor Shirley, in favour of one Jonathan Pine, as Surveyor of His Majesty's Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts
Bay.
He ran and bounded like a buck, and kept us well in the rear for some time; but at last he got caught in an impenetrable thicket of cane; then he turned to
bay, and I tell you he fought the dogs right gallantly.
There will be ceremonies and delays; they won't he coming up the
Bay for a considerable time, yet.
Will you succor and protect him as a brother-man--a resident of the old
Bay State?
I remember you very well: you used to give me a ride sometimes on Miss Georgiana's
bay pony.
In the hunted air of the people there was yet some wild-beast thought of the possibility of turning at
bay.
But my aunt, suddenly descrying among them the young malefactor who was the donkey's guardian, and who was one of the most inveterate offenders against her, though hardly in his teens, rushed out to the scene of action, pounced upon him, captured him, dragged him, with his jacket over his head, and his heels grinding the ground, into the garden, and, calling upon Janet to fetch the constables and justices, that he might be taken, tried, and executed on the spot, held him at
bay there.
Then they sent a message down to the Doctor to say that they would have to take a rest soon; and that they would pull the boat over to an island not far off, and hide it in a deep
bay till they had got breath enough to go on.
One fine May morning, as she cantered along the avenue at Brandon Beeches on a powerful
bay horse, the gates at the end opened and a young man sped through them on a bicycle.
They wanted to be taken to a Spanish port, and, if not to Cadiz, into Vigo
Bay, situated on the northwest coast of Spain, and which was not blocked.
Meeting with Hodgkiss Misfortunes of the Nez Perces Schemes of Kosato, the renegado His foray into the Horse Prairie- Invasion of Black feet Blue John and his forlorn hope Their generous enterprise-Their fate-Consternation and despair of the village- Solemn obsequies -Attempt at Indian trade -Hudson's
Bay Company's monopoly-Arrangements for autumn- Breaking up of an encampment.
The steep shores of the Mediterranean favoured the beginners in one of humanity's most daring enterprises, and the enchanting inland sea of classic adventure has led mankind gently from headland to headland, from
bay to
bay, from island to island, out into the promise of world-wide oceans beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
