orphan-like sight seen.

When it began to be so dark that the vessels could no longer be
discerned from the churchyard, many went down to the shore, and I
took the three babies home with me, and Mrs Pawkie made tea for
them, and they soon began to play with our own younger children, in
blythe forgetfulness of the storm; every now and then, however, the
eldest of them, when the shutters rattled and the lum-head roared,
would pause in his innocent daffing, and cower in towards Mrs
Pawkie, as if he was daunted and dismayed by something he knew not
what.

Many a one that night walked the sounding shore in sorrow, and fires
were lighted along it to a great extent; but the darkness and the
noise of the raging deep, and the howling wind, never intermitted
till about midnight: at which time a message was brought to me,
that it might be needful to send a guard of soldiers to the beach,
for that broken masts and tackle had come in, and that surely some
of the barks had perished. I lost no time in obeying this
suggestion, which was made to me by one of the owners of the Louping
Meg; and to show that I sincerely sympathized with all those in
affliction, I rose and dressed myself, and went down to the shore,
where I directed several old boats to be drawn up by the fires, and
blankets to be brought, and cordials prepared, for them that might
be spared with life to reach the land; and I walked the beach with
the mourners till the morning.

As the day dawned, the wind began to abate in its violence, and to
wear away from the sou-west into the norit, but it was soon
discovered that some of the vessels with the corn had perished; for