Ebook Coronet Memories

IN October,'1893, Mr. Arthur Curtiss James became the pos sessor of the schooner yacht Coronet, and shortly after he and his wife invited a small party to accompany them on their first cruise to the West Indies. Mr. And Mrs. William M. Kings ley, Miss Maud Parsons, and Mr. Arthur W. Francis were the chosen few, and Monday, February 12th, found all with eager anticipation at Tebo's Wharf, Brooklyn, where the Coronet was moored, tuned for her trip in every particular. With pride, and it must be said with slight misgivings, too, we gathered on deck to take our farewell of the friends who had come to bid usbon voyage. The ocean seemed big and our boat small. We were all novices at deep sea yachting, and the great unknown lay before us. The weather was threatening; the outlook discouraging; a strong wind blew from the wrong quarter, and snowclouds menaced. However, after our friends departed, we set about stowing away our belongings and getting acquainted with our surroundings; at luncheon we were cheerful but fretting some what at the delay. Toward evening snow began to fall, and we turned in feeling like an arctic expedition, rather than one bound for sunny climes. We awoke in the morning to find the ground deep with snow, and Captain Crosby, our old sail ing master, dismayed at the dirty day, as he expressed it.