Then "it was time for us to leave her," so we left her all snug and comfortable in a little cove called Huckleberry Cove, after Finn. We could not get down to the river again for two days, and when we did we could not find her for a long time, but at last we did find her--under water--she had gone down in twenty fathoms, we could see her quite clearly resting on the sandy bottom; she must have sprung a leak, and her captain had not the sense to beach her, as he should have done. [Illustration] THE "NEW CORINTHIAN" She was the finest vessel we had in the fleet. She was built out of a toy lifeboat, with a lead keel fastened on, and she had paper sails and a rudder. [Illustration] The "New Corinthian" sailed in the nicest way, but we were too proud of her, after we had rigged her, to let her go down the big river, so we sailed her on a small pond called Mystery Bay; we called it that name because it looked so terribly deep, but was really only about three feet deep. The "New Corinthian" did not have any adventurous voyages, but she had as good a time as she could have, sailing round and round Mystery Bay. But it must have been pretty exciting on her when the tadpoles tried to board her. But what we liked best was seeing the vessels of our fleet tearing and gliding and shooting down the flood and through the currents of the Gara river. [Illustration] NOTICE TO MARINERS. Since the above was written, the owners have put a buoy in mid-stream, between the Blackwall Hitch and Bully Bowline currents, and mariners will keep a south-easterly course, leaving the buoy nine fathoms and a-half on the starboard. * * * * * JACK YEATS'S CHAP BOOKS, _Printed for, and Sold by_ ELKIN MATHEWS, _in_ Vigo Street, _nigh the_ Albany, London. _Sold also by the_ BOOKSELLERS _in_ Town _and_ Country. * * * * * A BROADSHEET: For the Years 1902-3. With Pictures by P. Colman Smith and Jack B. Yeats. Hand-coloured, Twenty-four Numbers, with portfolio, £1 7s. 6d. free. The Contributors include W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Professor F. York Powell, "A.E.," Wilfred Gibson, John Masefield, Dr. Douglas Hyde, and others. * Specimen copies may be had, post free, 1s. 2d. net. "Mr. Yeats has not yet come by his own; when he does the world will recognise more exactly than it has done hitherto what a facile and original artist he is."--_Speaker._ "Miss P. Colman Smith undoubtedly has a great eye for colour, and a most curious conception of its application; indeed the colouring of 'A Broadsheet' is its most striking feature."--_The Reader._ "These twenty-four Broadsheets may be wisely collected by the curious."--_The Sphere._ [Illustration] _One of Jack B. Yeats's Books for Children._ THE BOSUN AND THE BOB-TAILED COMET. Foolscap 8vo, 1s. net; or Coloured by the Author, 5s. net. [Illustration]