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the cruise of the dolphin(海豚的游弋)-第4部分
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just previous to the gale; and nothing had been heard of them。 It turned out
that the pleasure…seekers saw their danger in time; and ran ashore on one
of the least exposed islands; where they passed the night。 Shortly after our
own arrival they appeared off Rivermouth; much to the joy of their friends;
in two shattered; dismasted boats。
The excitement over; I was in a forlorn state; physically and mentally。
Captain Nutter put me to bed between hot blankets; and sent Kitty Collins
for the doctor。 I was wandering in my mind; and fancied myself still on
Sandpeep Island: now we were building our brick stove to cook the
chowder; and; in my delirium; I laughed aloud and shouted to my
comrades; now the sky darkened; and the squall struck the island; now I
gave orders to Wallace how to manage the boat; and now I cried because
the rain was pouring in on me through the holes in the tent。 Towards
evening a high fever set in; and it was many days before my grandfather
deemed it prudent to tell me that the Dolphin had been found; floating keel
upwards; four miles southeast of Mackerel Reef。
Poor little Binny Wallace! How strange it seemed; when I went to
school again; to see that empty seat in the fifth row! How gloomy the
playground was; lacking the sunshine of his gentle; sensitive face! One
day a folded sheet slipped from my algebra: it was the last note he ever
wrote me。 I could not read it for the tears。
What a pang shot across my heart the afternoon it was whispered
through the town that a body had been washed ashore at Grave Pointthe
place where we bathed! We bathed there no more! How well I remember
the funeral; and what a piteous sight it was afterwards to see his familiar
name on a small headstone in the Old South Burying…Ground!
Poor little Binny Wallace! Always the same to me。 The rest of us have
grown up into hard; worldly men; fighting the fight of life; but you are
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forever young; and gentle; and pure; a part of my own childhood that time
cannot wither; always a little boy; always poor little Binny Wallace!
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