olence, and but occasionally broke over
the vessel; carefully holding on by the door-jambs, Coco gained the
outside, that he might survey the horizon.

"What you see, Coco?" said the female, observing from the _caboose_ that
his eyes were fixed upon a certain quarter.

"So help me God, me tink me see something; but ab so much salt water in
um eye, me no see clear," replied Coco, rubbing away the salt which had
crystallised on his face during the morning.

"What you tink um like, Coco?"

"Only one bit cloud," replied he, entering the _caboose_, and resuming
his seat upon the grate with a heavy sigh.

"Eh, me!" cried the negress, who had uncovered the child to look at it,
and whose powers were sinking fast. "Poor lilly Massa Eddard, him look
very bad indeed--him die very soon, me fear. Look, Coco, no ab breath."

The child's head fell back upon the breast of its nurse, and life
appeared to be extinct.

"Judy, you no ab milk for piccaninny; suppose um ab no milk, how can
live? Eh! stop, Judy, me put lilly fingers in um mouth; suppose Massa
Eddard no dead, him pull."

Coco inserted his finger into the child's mouth, and felt a slight
drawing pressure. "Judy," cried Coco, "Massa Eddard no dead yet. Try
now, suppose you ab lilly drop oder side."

Poor Judy shook her head mournfully, and a tear rolled down her cheek;
she was aware that nature was exhausted. "Coco," said she, wiping her
cheek with the back of her hand, "me give me heart blood for Massa
Eddard; but no ab milk--all gone."

This forcible expression of love for the child, which was used by Judy,
gave an idea to Coco. He drew his knife out of his pocket, and very
coolly sawed to the bone of his fore-finger. The blood flowed and
trickled down to the extremity, which he applied to the mouth of the
infant.

"See, Judy, Massa Eddard suck--him not dead," cried Coco, chuckling at
the fortunate result of the experiment, and forgetting at the moment
their almost hopeless situation.

The child, revived by the strange sustenance, gradually recovered its
powers, and in a few minutes it pulled at the finger with a certain
degree of vigour.

"Look Judy, how Massa Eddard take it," continued Coco. "Pull away,
Massa Eddard, pull away. Coco ab ten finger, and take long while suck
em all dry." But the child was soon satisfied, and fell asleep in the
arms of Judy.

"Coco, suppose you go see again," observed Judy. The negro again
crawled out, and again he