LITTLE ELLIE SITS ALONE (Color Plate) _Arthur Henderson_ 316 TH' EXPECTANT WEE-THINGS _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 321 ROUND THE INGLE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 325 CHARLES LAMB (Halftone) 328 ROAMING ABOUT THAT HUGE MANSION _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 339 HE WOULD MOUNT A METTLESOME HORSE _Herbert N. Rudeen_ 341 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Halftone) 346 FERDINAND LEAPED _Iris Weddell White_ 353 TELL YOUR PITEOUS HEART _Iris Weddell White_ 371 ANTONIO AND SEBASTIAN PLOTTING _Iris Weddell White_ 403 PRAY YOU WORK NOT SO HARD _Iris Weddell White_ 421 CERES ENTERS, AT IRIS' CALL _Iris Weddell White_ 439 STEPHANO AND TRINCULO QUARREL _Iris Weddell White_ 448 WHERE THE BEE SUCKS, THERE SUCK I _Iris Weddell White_ 455 LOOK DOWN, YOU GODS, ON THIS COUPLE _Iris Weddell White_ 461 RINGROSE AND HIS BUCCANEERS[1-1] Just two days after we took possession of the town of Santa Maria, we departed thence on Saturday, April 17th, 1680. We all embarked in thirty-five canoes, which we had taken while lying at anchor at the front of the town. Thus we sailed, or rather rowed, down the river in quest of the South Sea upon which Panama is seated. Our prisoners, the Spaniards, begged very earnestly that they might be permitted to go with us and not be left to the mercy of the Indians, who would show them no favor and whose cruelty they so much feared, but we had such difficulty in finding boats for ourselves that we could assist them little. However, they found soon after either logs or old canoes, so that they were able to come along with us. It was my misfortune to have a canoe which was very heavy and consequently sluggish. Because of this we were left behind the rest a little way, there being only four men beside myself in the boat. As the tide fell it left several shoals of sand naked, and hence we, not knowing the location of the channel amongst such a variety of streams, steered for over two miles into a shoal where we were forced to lie by until high water came. As soon as the tide began to turn, we rowed away, but in spite of all our endeavors, we could neither find nor overtake our companions. At ten o'clock, when the tide became low, we stuck an oar in the sands and by turns slept in our canoe, where we were pierced to the skin by the showers that fell in the night.