tion: "UNCLE HENRY! UNCLE HENRY!" CALLED DOROTHY]

But the wind screeched and howled so madly that she scarce heard her own
voice, and the man certainly failed to hear her, for he did not move.

Dorothy decided she must go to him; so she made a dash forward, during a
lull in the storm, to where a big square chicken-coop had been lashed to
the deck with ropes. She reached this place in safety, but no sooner had
she seized fast hold of the slats of the big box in which the chickens
were kept than the wind, as if enraged because the little girl dared to
resist its power, suddenly redoubled its fury. With a scream like that
of an angry giant it tore away the ropes that held the coop and lifted
it high into the air, with Dorothy still clinging to the slats. Around
and over it whirled, this way and that, and a few moments later the
chicken-coop dropped far away into the sea, where the big waves caught
it and slid it up-hill to a foaming crest and then downhill into a deep
valley, as if it were nothing more than a plaything to keep them amused.

Dorothy had a good ducking, you may be sure, but she didn't loose her
presence of mind even for a second. She kept tight hold of the stout
slats and as soon as she could get the water out of her eyes she saw
that the wind had ripped the cover from the coop, and the poor chickens
were fluttering away in every direction, being blown by the wind until
they looked like feather dusters without handles. The bottom of the coop
was made of thick boards, so Dorothy found she was clinging to a sort of
raft, with sides of slats, which readily bore up her weight. After
coughing the water out of her throat and getting her breath again, she
managed to climb over the slats and stand upon the firm wooden bottom of
the coop, which supported her easily enough.

"Why, I've got a ship of my own!" she thought, more amused than
frightened at her sudden change of condition; and then, as the coop
climbed up to the top of a big wave, she looked eagerly around for the
ship from which she had been blown.

It was far, far away, by this time. Perhaps no one on board had yet
missed her, or knew of her strange adventure. Down into a valley
between the waves the coop swept her, and when she climbed another
crest the ship looked like a toy boat, it was such a long way off. Soon
it had entirely disappeared in the gloom, and then Dorothy gave a sigh
of regret at parting with Uncle Henry and began to wonder what was g