The Seiners

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Maurice was standing on the front steps of Mrs. Arkell's boarding-house when I saw him. It was Mrs. Arkell's granddaughter Minnie that married the wealthy Mr. Miner--a rather lo...

He worked away on Johnnie, and had the water pretty well out of him by the time the uncle and the doctor came. It was hard work for a time, but it came at last to when the docto...

The rest of that morning, between leaving Clancy and getting back to the dock again, I spent in cleaning up and overhauling my home outfit. My mother couldn't be made to believe...

So we pursed in, not knowing whether we were to have a good haul with a hundred or a hundred and fifty dollars apiece at the end of it, or whether we would have our work for not...

And not till then did our skipper, ten hours to the wheel, unclinch his grip, hook the becket to a spoke, slat his sou'wester on the wheel-box and ease his mind.

"No, I'll bet you can't. It isn't often she comes down the dock. Miss Foster no less. 'And what makes you think I won't?' I asks her. 'Oh, of course I know you will,' she says,...

"Oh, the 'Liza Jane left port one day, With her hold full of squash and her deck all hay. Two years back with her sails all set She put from Bath--she's sailing yet.

"But why not?" he asked at last. "Why not, Mr. Clancy? Is it a matter of money? If it is, I'll make that right. I pay ordinary hands twenty-five and thirty dollars a month and f...

Most of her crew were below at the time, some in their bunks. Four or five of those below never reached the deck at all--the water rushing down the companionways cut them off. S...

Not until well into the afternoon, when the last mackerel was flattened out in its barrel, did any of us feel that we could step back in our own time, straighten ourselves out,...

"Sure and I was. And better before the race than in the race. And next day--that's to-day--we spent putting in a new stick. I had to take what I could get to save time, and I do...

That sounded strong, but it was true. When we reached the end of our dock we looked for ourselves, and there it was. The Colleen's crew had hoisted their mains'l already and the...

We all felt for Mr. Duncan, who couldn't seem to believe his eyes. We all felt for Wesley, too, who was desperately trying to hold the wind of the Withrow--he had even rigged bl...

"William Somers--William the Illustrious--William the First--'First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of Gloucestermen'--and if you let me stand up, I'll do a brea...

"Nelson," called Clancy, "come away from that rail! Steve, come away!--come away, I say, and no back talk. Pat, you can go--jump in--watch your chance or it's the last of you. E...