"Come on, captain!--come on, in with you!" is the cry; and he comes and leaps into the boat. Hurrah! they have every man. Now how to get away? that is the question. They dare not haul up to their anchor lest the gale should carry them back on the wreck before they could get the boat under sail. "The anchor must go, boys!" cries the coxswain. "Up with a corner of the foresail; that will throw her head off the wreck. We must run before the wind." The manoeuvre is carried out with the utmost care, for the least mistake will be paid for with the life of every man on board. When all is ready, the coxswain's voice rings out again: "Out axe, and cut the cable!" Down comes the keen edge, the last strand is parted, and away leaps the boat into the darkness and the furious turmoil of the raging sea. Straight across the shoals the gallant boat drives through the boiling surf, in which no other craft could live. Staggering, reeling, plunging she goes, but with every wild plunge she nears deep water and comparative safety, and at last, with one wild, long heave, she beats off the shoals, and the crew feel the regular run of deep water under her keel, and shout joyously: "Hurrah! cheer O!" For of the wildest storm on the open sea these dauntless British hearts care nothing. And now they bring the nose of their gallant boat round on the homeward tack, and run for the shore, where fire and light and a warm welcome await them. And what a shout will go up when the cry rings from the sea, "All saved! all saved!" for to raise that cry is ample reward for these heroes of the storm. BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD * * * * * LIST OF SMALLER VOLUMES IN THE PEEPS AT MANY LANDS SERIES EACH CONTAINING 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BURMA EGYPT ENGLAND FRANCE HOLLAND HOLY LAND ICELAND INDIA ITALY JAPAN MOROCCO SCOTLAND SIAM SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH SEAS SWITZERLAND PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. W. AGENTS AMERICA . . . THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA . OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MELBOURNE CANADA . . . THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. 27 Richmond Street West, TORONTO INDIA . . . . MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 Bow Bazaar Street, CALCUTTA End of Project Gutenberg's Peeps at Many Lands: England, by John Finnemore