Just to let him walk a step or two behind." "After he h

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Trom. "Sail in the Maelstrom!" said Mary Anna; "whoever heard of sailing
in the Maelstrom? That is a great whirlpool, which swallows up ships;
they never sail in it. You had better call it the Gulf Stream." "Well,"
said Dwight, "we will; and will you help us rig some vessels?" "Yes,"
said Mary Anna, "when you get the mole done." Mary Anna was a beautiful
girl, about seventeen years old, with a mild and gentle expression of
countenance, and very pleasant tone of voice. She helped the children in
all their plays, and they were always pleased when she was with them.
She had great stores of pasteboard and coloured papers, to make boxes,
and portfolios, and little pocket-books, and wallets of; and she had a
paint-box, and pencils, and drawing-books, and portfolios of pictures
and drawing lessons. She rigged the boys' vessels, and covered their
balls, and made them beautiful flags and banners out of her pieces of
coloured silk. She advised them to have a flag-staff out at the end of
the mole, as they generally have on all fortifications and national
works. She told them she would make them a handsome flag for the
purpose. After tea she went down with them to see the works. She seemed
to like the mole very much. The whirlpool was moving very regularly, and
she advised them to build the mole out pretty far. "Yes," said Dwight;
"and we are going to have a piece across up and down the stream, at the
end of it, so as to make a T of it." "I think you had better make a Y of
it," said Mary Anna. "A Y!" said Dwight, "how?" "Why instead of having
the end piece go straight across the end of the mole, let the two parts
of it branch out into the stream, one upwards and the other down." "What
good will that do?" said David. "Why, if you make it straight like a T,
the current will run directly along the outer edge of it, and so your
vessels will not stay there. But if you have it Y-shaped, there will be
a little sort of harbour in the crotch, where your vessels can lie
quietly, while the current flows along by, out beyond the forks." "That
will be excellent," said Dwight, clapping his
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