ll events, with terror. I felt both awe-struck and alarmed,
and could scarcely recover myself sufficiently to help Malcolm. He was
far less moved, and continued guiding the canoe with his former
calmness. At last I could not help crying out--

"Oh, Malcolm, how is it that you cannot see our danger?"

"I do, Harry, clearly," he answered gravely; "but we are in the
performance of our duty, and God will take care of us."

His words and tone made an impression on me which I have never
forgotten. When dangers have surrounded me, I have asked myself, "Am I
engaged in the performance of my duty? then why need I fear, God will
protect me. He always has protected me." The grandest receipt for
enabling a person to be truly brave, is that he must ever walk on in the
strict line of duty.

We were driving northward at a fearful rate, for the rapidity of the
current was greatly increased by the wind. We wished that we could get
back to our oak tree, as we might make fast to its branches, but it was
nowhere visible. To have paddled against the gale would have only
exhausted our strength to no purpose. As Malcolm found that he could
guide the canoe without me, he told me to bail out the water. As I
turned round to do so, I shouted with joy, for I thought I saw a large
boat under full sail coming down towards us. On it came, much faster
than we were driving; but as it drew near, it looked less and less like
a boat, till to my bitter disappointment I discovered that it was a
large haystack which had been floated bodily away. At length just
before us appeared a clump of trees, and we hoped that the ground on
which they stood might be out of water. Malcolm steered towards the
spot. We might remain there till the storm was over. The trees bent
with the wind, and it appeared as if they could not possibly stand. We
approached the spot perhaps with less caution than we had before
employed. Suddenly the canoe spun round, a large rent appeared in her
bows, over she went, and we were thrown struggling into the water.
Before we could regain the canoe she had floated far away, and not
without a severe struggle did we succeed in reaching the land. We
climbed up by, some bushes, and found ourselves on the summit of a
little knoll rising out of the water, and not comprising more than fifty
square yards. Our first impulse was to look-out to see what had become
of our canoe, and we stood watching it with a bewildered gaze as it
fl