CHAPTER I.MATT HIRES OUT.
It was a raw, cold day in early April. Since morning, the clouds had been gathering, and they now hung, dark and heavy, over both land and sea. The wind, too, which had been steadily increasing for hours in violence, now blew little short of a gale. It evidently was going to be a terrible night, and that night was nearly at hand.
No one realized this more than the boy who, with a small bundle in one hand and a stout...
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