The tide was near the full, and so we went slipping down the dark water by the starlight and as we saw them shining above us, and then looked down and saw them sparkling up from below,-the stars,-it really seemed as if Dan’s oars must be two long wings, as if we swam on them through a motionless air. I’ve felt it nights when I’ve been watching with mother, and there has come up across the heavens the great caravan of constellations, and a star that I’d pulled away the curtain on the east side to see came by-and-by and looked in at the south window but I never felt it as I did this night. Always, when I ’m up late, I feel as if it were something unlawful, as if affairs were in progress which I had no right to witness, a kind of grand freemasonry. When we started, it was in that clear crystal dark that looks as if you could see through it forever till you reached infinite things, and we seemed to be in a great hollow sphere, and the stars were like living beings who had the night to themselves. I was kind of sorry, but there was no help for it. Gabriel agreed to fetch me at the hour, and so we parted. So they were going out when the tide served - the two boys - at midnight for mackerel, and Dan had heard me wish for the experience so often, a long while ago, that he said, Why should n’t they take the girls ? and Faith snatched at the idea, and with that Mr. BLUE-FISH were about done with, when one day Dan brought in some mackerel from Boon Island: they had n’t been in the harbor for some time, though now there was a probability of their return.
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