d over toward the
edge. At first she was afraid she would be thrown out on the cabin
floor, but the strips of canvas her mother had fastened in place stopped
the little girl from having a fall, just as they had stopped Bunny.

Sue looked up at the tiny electric light, operated by a storage battery.
Captain Ross had put it there so the children would not be in the dark
if they awakened in the night and needed something.

"Bunny! Bunny!" exclaimed Sue, "I don't like a storm on a boat at
night!"

Before Bunny could answer his sister the door of the little stateroom
where they were was opened and Mother Brown looked in. She was dressed,
and her head, face and hair were wet as though she had been out in the
storm. And she really had, for a moment.

"So you're awake, children," she said. "The storm is a bad one, and we
are heading for a quiet cove where we will soon be sheltered and more
quiet."

"Can't I get up, Mother, and dress?" asked Bunny. "Maybe we'll have to
get off the _Fairy_ and into the rowboat, and I want my clothes on."

"Yes, you may get up and dress," said Mrs. Brown. "But there is no
danger that we shall have to take to the small boat. It is just a severe
summer storm, with much wind and rain, but not much else."

"Does it thunder and lightning?" asked Sue.

"No; or you would have heard it and seen it before this," her mother
said. "Here, Sue, I'll take you over in my room and you may dress there.
Bunny, can you manage by yourself?"

"Yes, Mother," he answered.

Mrs. Brown carried Sue in her arms to the room across the main cabin. It
was not easy work with the boat pitching and tossing as it was, but
finally the affair was managed, and Sue had her clothes put on. Bunny
dressed himself, though not without some difficulty, for when he tried
to stand on his right foot to put his left shoe on he slid across the
little room and against the opposite wall. But he was not hurt.

Soon all of them except Captain Ross were in the main cabin. In answer
to a question about the sailor, Mr. Brown said:

"He's out steering the boat. He wants to bring her safe into Clam Cove,
he says, and then we'll anchor for the night. But he thought it best for
us all to be dressed. The storm is worse than any of us thought it would
be."

After the first feeling had worn off of being suddenly awakened in the
night, Bunny and Sue did not mind it much. They sat around, looking a
little anxiously at their father or mother as t