Category: Adventure
These stories embody only a small part of the folk-lore and tradition that pertained to the Great South Bay. They were told by a class of men now gone. Fact, imagination, and superstition--each contributed its part. In the tavern, among groups of men collected on shore from wi...
These stories embody only a small part of the folk-lore and tradition that pertained to the Great South Bay. They were told by a class of men now gone. Fact, imagination, and su...
2. Part 2When he came to his boat, he tied the coat securely about the jar with odd strands of rope, and placed the prize carefully under forward. When night fell, it was his intention t...
3. Part 3Josh, who had sat with his gun across his knees during Layn's account of this mishap, now resumed the work of cleaning his gun, upon which he had put all his time since clearing...
4. Part 4They plunged into work again with greater determination. It was in this way they kept their courage up; for every time they stopped to whet, their feelings were in a turmoil. Th...
5. Part 5They ran westward to a low spot between the hills, and turned through this pass. As they were following the winding around the edge of a hill, suddenly the older brother grasped...
6. Part 6"Some man in that yawl knows well enough where this landing-place is, an' they're coming to it, you can bet your last guinea," remarked Jim Avery. "My advice is to git away from...
7. Part 7Captain Ben gathered his followers close in under the bank, while he climbed to the top of the sand ridge and peered over. He saw distinctly the masts of the schooner, but not t...
8. Part 8They got their boat under way, each maintaining silence. The wind was free. John let the sheet run, and they swept out into the broad bay. The waves ran high. Their boat, as if...