Her written exercises are blotted and full of mistakes." THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING BEHINDHAND.
"The following incident, which I witnessed on a late journey, illustrates an important principle, and I will relate it.
"When our steam-boat started from the wharf, all our passengers had not come.

After we had proceeded a few yards, there appeared among the crowd on the wharf a man with his trunk under his arm, out of breath, and with a most disappointed and disconsolate air.

The captain determined to stop for him; but stopping an immense steam-boat, moving swiftly through the water, is not to be done in a moment; so we took a grand sweep, wheeling majestically around an English ship which was at anchor in the harbor.
As we came toward the wharf again, we saw the man in a small boat coming off from it.

As the steam-boat swept round, they barely succeeded in catching a rope from the stern, and then immediately the steam-engine began its work again, and we pressed forward, the little boat following us so swiftly that the water around her was all in a foam.
"They pulled upon the rope attached to the little boat until they drew it alongside.

They then let down a rope, with a hook in the end of it, from an iron crane which projected over the side of the steam-boat, and hooked it into a staple in the front of the small boat.