No one was there , though usually at this hour they were full of visitors , and it was time for the walkers to have arrived . `` I wonder if Gerty and Mamie will be sorry if I 'm drowned , '' thought Jill , remembering the poor girl who had been lost in the Chasm not long ago . Her lively fancy pictured the grief of her friends at her loss ; but that did not help or comfort her now , and as her anxious gaze wandered along the shore , she said aloud , in a pensive tone , -- `` Perhaps I shall be wrecked on Norman 's Woe , and somebody will make poetry about me . It would be pretty to read , but I do n't want to die that way . Oh , why did I come ! Why did n't I stay safe and comfortable in my own boat ? '' At the thought a sob rose , and poor Jill laid her head down on her lap to cry with all her heart , feeling very helpless , small , and forsaken alone there on the great sea . In the midst of her tears came the thought , `` When people are in danger , they ask God to save them ; '' and , slipping down upon her knees , she said her prayer as she had never said it before , for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father , and feel sure that he will hear and answer them . After that she felt better , and wiped away the drops that blinded her , to look out again like a shipwrecked mariner watching for a sail . And there it was ! Close by , coming swiftly on with a man behind it , a sturdy brown fisher , busy with his lobster-pots , and quite unconscious how like an angel he looked to the helpless little girl in the rudderless boat . `` Hi ! hi ! Oh , please do stop and get me ! I 'm lost , no oars , nobody to fix the sail ! Oh , oh ! please come ! '' screamed Jill , waving her hat frantically as the other boat skimmed by and the man stared at her as if she really was a mermaid with a fishy tail . `` Keep still ! I 'll come about and fetch you ! ''
he called out ; and XXXXX obeyed , sitting like a little image of faith , till with a good deal of shifting and flapping of the sail , the other boat came alongside and took her in tow .
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