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SOME rough weather now followed, and at one time the storm grew so violent, that for several days the hatches were fastened down, and no one allowed to go on deck. But as the wind, though violent, was in the right direction, it only sped them the faster on their voyage.

Those days of imprisonment were dreary, and when the sea calmed, and the sun came out, all were wonderfully delighted to be again on deck. In just seven weeks from the day they left Greenock, the passengers in the good ship William Wallace got the first sight of land in the new world to which they were bound.

As Mrs Fraser's eye scanned the Highlands of the lower bay of New York, how strange and lively were her feelings! And when the ship got farther up, and she saw the pretty white houses on Staten Island and the Jersey shore, her heart

reverted to the little white-washed cottage on the banks of the Tweed, where she had spent so many happy days.

Donald's curiosity was unbounded, and as Sandy had been several times here before, he was able to tell him the names of all the places of interest as they approached the city.

A great cleaning operation had been going on, for several days, all through the ship; and now she was as neat as a pin, with flags flying, and all her rigging in holiday attire.

At last she cast anchor. The cabin passengers were here transferred with their baggage to a little steamer, and conveyed to the city. Mrs Richardson was much affected in parting with Mrs Fraser and Donald. She gave them her son's address in St Louis, and said she hoped Mrs Fraser would write to her, when she settled in New York. Captain Johnson went with the cabin passengers. Donald was very sorry to part with him, for he was an exceedingly entertaining man, and had spent many hours in telling him and his mother the story of his adventures by sea and land.

A larger steamboat conveyed the steerage passengers and their baggage.

At the dock they were besieged by a horde of land sharks, for it was before the blessings of Castle Garden and its safeguards were thrown around the unprotected emigrant. Leaving her baggage on the pier, Mrs Fraser pushed her way with Donald by the hand, through the crowd of these demons in human form. Wearied in body and sad at heart, she sat down on the wooden steps of a large stone house, which was for the time closed, and burst into tears. Donald stood quietly by her side till her grief had full vent; and then tried to comfort and soothe her. Sud

denly a cheery voice was heard. "O Mrs Fraser, is that you? I have been looking everywhere for you." It was Sandy, who, with radiant countenance and heart overflowing with good-will, stood before them.

Seeing Mrs Fraser not inclined to speak, he went on : "Where are you going, ma'am, in this great city? The day is wearing away so rapidly; you must not sit any longer here."

Mrs Fraser said she did not know where to go, but supposed the best thing to do would be to call at the office of Light & Tasker, 46 South Street, and inquire the whereabouts of the Eagle Wing, and her brother Niel.

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'Well," says Sandy, "I have a holiday this afternoon, and I will go with you. Only I must first put your luggage under the care of Geordie Scott, a comrade of mine, who will see that nobody disturbs it while we are gone."

This being all arranged to Sandy's satisfaction, he led the way through a labyrinth of streets, till they stood in front of the office of Light & Tasker, shipping merchants. They went up a rather roughlooking pair of stairs, into a large, low office, the chief ornaments of which consisted in wooden models of ships and lithographic pictures of the same. The book-keeper, Mr Robertson, was very polite to them, and said the Eagle Wing was expected back in about four or five weeks. He also stated that Mrs Fraser's brother Niel had said that they could get respectable and reasonable accommodations at No. 14 Hester Street, and that Niel had left with him fifty dollars, which he had requested him to hand to her on her arrival, and which he now did.

Sandy again volunteered his services to find 14 Hester Street. They were pleased with the nature of the accommodations, though their two little rooms contrasted very unfavourably with the pretty little cottage and garden that they had

ten dollars a month.

left in their native land. The rent was to be Sandy got a dray, and had all their baggage and goods of every kind transferred to their new home before nine o'clock that night.

At Mrs Fraser's earnest request, Sandy stayed all night with them, and slept with Donald; but, before the others were up the next morning, he was dressed and away to the ship.

Everything seemed so strange to Mrs Fraser : the money, the measures, the mode of living, and many other things. For a while she seemed bewildered, but, woman-like, she rose above her difficulties, and adapted herself to the new circumstences in which she was placed.

Her first business, after getting settled, was to find a school for Donald. This she had no difficulty in doing, in the excellent public schools of New York.

Within a quarter of a mile of their residence was a school of this kind, where both tuition and books were free, and where the opportunities of acquiring a good and substantial education were all that could be desired. Donald was in fine health, and so he could give all his energies to his studies, and he soon was at the head of his