, as well as the
nostrils, are covered with a frothy mucus. Coldness and pallor of
surface increase.

CAUTIONS.--Prevent unnecessary crowding of persons round the body,
especially if in an apartment.

Avoid rough usage, and do not allow the body to remain on the back
unless the tongue is secured.

_Under no circumstances_ hold the body up by the feet.

_On no account_ place the body in a warm bath, unless under medical
direction, and even then it should only be employed as a momentary
excitement.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

THE MORNING AFTER THE STORM.

On the fifth morning that succeeded the breaking of the storm, described
in the last chapter, the sun rose in gorgeous splendour and shone upon a
sea that was clear and burnished like a sheet of glass. The wind had
ceased suddenly, and a perfect calm prevailed; but although no breath of
air ruffled the surface of the deep, the long swell rose and fell as if
the breast of ocean were still throbbing from its recent agitation.

All along the east coast of England this swell met the shore in a
succession of slow-rolling waves, which curled majestically over, and
appeared almost to pause for a moment ere they fell, with deep solemn
roar, in a magnificent burst of foam.

Everywhere the effects of the storm were painfully evident. Wrecks
could be counted by the dozen from some of the bold headlands that
commanded an extensive view of the shore. The work of destruction was
not yet over. The services of our lifeboats could not yet be dispensed
with although the fury of the winds had ceased.

It is a mistake to suppose that when a gale has ceased, all danger to
man and destruction to his property is over. We are apt to attribute
too much influence to the winds. Undoubtedly they are the origin of the
evil that befalls us in storms, but they are not the _immediate_ cause
of the wholesale destruction that takes place annually among the
shipping of the kingdom. It is the mighty hydraulic force of the sea,--
the tremendous lifting power of the waves, that does it all.

Although the storm was over and the wind had gone down, the swell of the
ocean had not yet ceased to act. On many a headland, and in many a
rocky bay, brigs, schooners, barques, and ships of large size and stout
frame, were that day lifted and battered, rent, torn, riven, and split
by the sea as if they had been toys; their great timbers snapped like
pipe-stems, and their iron bars and copper bolts twi