Category: Novels
CHAPTER PAGE I. The Wayfarer 1 II. A Matter of Expediency 40 III. The Minstrel 66 IV. The Squall 98 V. The Fool of Skeleton Tickle 132 VI. A Comedy of Candlestick Cove 149 VII. "By-an'-by" Brown of Blunder Cove 182 VIII. They Who Lose at Love 208 IX. The Revolution at Satan's...
CHAPTER PAGE I. The Wayfarer 1 II. A Matter of Expediency 40 III. The Minstrel 66 IV. The Squall 98 V. The Fool of Skeleton Tickle 132 VI. A Comedy of Candlestick Cove 149 VII....
2. Part 2"He took it all so gracious that somehow or other I begun t' forget that he was froze t' the pan an' bound out t' sea. He was 'longside, now; an' I seed un smile. So I sort o' g...
3. Part 3"T' how you looks at it. In a mess, now--you take it in a nasty mess, when 'tis every man for hisself an' the devil take the hindmost--in a mess like that, I 'low, the devil oft...
4. Part 4"Soon enough, God knowed! By midnight the edge o' the floe was rubbin' Pa'tridge P'int, an' the ice was troubled an' angry. In an hour the pack had the bottom scrunched out o' t...
5. Part 5"I have be to New York," Salim whispered, in a vast excitement of secrecy and delight. "I am theenk: 'Thee boy want thee watch. How thee boy have thee watch? Thee good boy _mus'...
6. Part 6"Well, now," Tumm continued, "Slow Jim Tool an' Archibald Shott o' Jump Harbor was cast away in the _Dimple_ at Creep Head o' the Labrador. Bein' wrecked seamen, they come up in...
7. Part 7"Arch was belly foremost t' the cliff--toes on a ledge an' hands gripped aloft. He was able t' look up, but made poor work o' lookin' down over his shoulder; an' I 'lowed, him n...
8. Part 8And the fool of Skeleton Tickle was left with a suit of shoddy tweed and fifty-seven dollars in unspoiled gold and silver coin, believing that he had overreached the peddler fro...
9. Part 9Parson All turned out to be a mild little old man with spectacles. His eyes were blue--faded, watery, shy: wherein were many flashes of humor and kindness. His face was smooth a...
10. Part 10Next year began, of course, with the first day of January. And a day with wind and snow it was! Through the interval of three months preceding, Brown had observed the approach o...
11. Part 11"What is my love?" he whispered. "Is it a consuming fire? Nay," he answered, his voice rising, warm, tremulous; "rather is it a little blaze, kindled brightly in the night, that...
12. Part 12It chanced one summer dawn, however, when the sky was flushed with tender light, and the shadows were trooping westward, and the sea was placid, that the punts of Timothy Yule a...
13. Part 13Jehoshaphat went to the door of the shop. It was cold and gloomy in the shop. He opened the door. The public of Satan's Trap, in the persons of ten men of the place, fathers of...
14. Part 14"Somehow," Tumm began, his voice fallen rather despondent, I fancied, but yet continuing most curiously genial, "it always made me think o' dust an' ashes t' clap eyes on ol' Bi...
15. Part 15"Ol' Bill Hulk always 'lowed that if by God's chance they'd on'y come a fair fishin' season afore his shoulders give out he'd make a self-respectin' haul an' be through. 'Back g...