Look at that, mum!" he added in excitement.

"See the way he brought her head round to it, just in time.

Boys, they'll come in on the next one!" One by one the sailors made their way to the very edge of the wave-splashed beach.

There were a few more minutes of breathless anxiety.

Then, after the boat had disappeared completely from sight, hidden by a huge grey wall of sea, she seemed suddenly to climb to the top of it, to hover there, to become mixed up with the spray and the surf and a great green mass of waters, and then finally, with a harsh crash of timbers and a shout from the fishermen, to be flung high and dry upon the stones.