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-~‘uâ€"VW BL UE WATER A TALE or THE gigs? ' SEA FISHERMEN BY FREDERICK WILLIAM wXLLACE. W.” _â€"â€"'â€"â€"'== l RX" 1 ‘1 _,. CODYTighft by lâ€"all sem in a distinctive way to en- The Museum Book Company ban. “-n im appearance of tlliie able: ' ’ ‘ ‘ ' Ban ~s net. The sea itse was How the Story Started. ll‘ike :' ,v- ‘ i a dotted around the hor- u Frank westhlve) know“ a" l izon ‘ tiny dories which strung Shorty," lives at Long Cove on Bay arou '. = 'ircle of blank ocean like, 91 Fundy 0035‘ With his Emmet and the rim of a wheel with the vessel his uncle, Captain Jerry Clark._ H°,as a common centre. Far away to the find his chum Lemuel Ring. dunk ,aisouth the sails of another schooner bottle of rum, whereupon Frank allele tells him the story 0 his fath- 3r’s fondness for drink hg‘lbv “1° Grace Weathaver” weal down 0“ Sable Island with ten of her crew and her skipper. This has the desxred ef- rfect upon Frank. He finishes school with credit to himself and spend} “19 summer as an apprentice tqi‘Long Dick" Jennings. In August his uncle takes him on a fishing trip as $911” hand aboard the Kaistalia. Whilelat anchor in Canso after the first fishing trip, Frank rescues a French boy from ill-treatment by his fellow-sailors. 'Ilhe two boys try their hand at (1on fishing. CHAPTER SIXâ€"(Cont’d.) awa tom the anchored schooner in the irection indicated. How beautiful' the Vessel looked as she rode lazny over the sunlit swell! The long bow- sprlt, clipper bow, slender topmasts scraped and varnished with their gild- ed trucks and colored wind-vanes or “highflyers” fluttering l-azfly in the morning air, the beautiful run and sheet of the black hullâ€"riding deeper now with the weight of the fish bekw éfififii’e/ed Wire ’15 fill/cred ' “Poor old Cofl'ee Pot,” whispered the enameled Double Boiler to the (hip. “Mistress was awfully mad at him today, wasn't she? \She scraped and scoured and rubbed him, but he’s almost as black and dirty as ever. And when he at- rived here he shone like silver. “How about me?” groan- ed Sauce Pan from a cor- ne . “Mistress says she's a named to have me in the kitchen. Once. I was just as shiny and silvery as Coffee Pal. I wish 1 were like you, Double Boiler. You enameled ware fellows are always so clean. You are the favorites in this kitchen." “Cheer up," squeakcd the enameled ware cup with a sleepy yawn. “I~ heard Mistress Buy today she is going to replace all you follows with 5MP Enu- mcled Ware utensils." “She‘s wise,” admitted the dirty-{need Sauce Pan sadly. And silence descend- ed on the kitchen. Insist on the clean, healthful 1 gr ' ‘SHEE? METAL own-Au RQDUCTS C0 nm-‘t: sic.\in§u_ Tongan) \ViNNIPEG EGMONYDN \‘NCOUVIR CAlGAm Shir?)ng the oars, the boys pulled. I l ' IShorty. ~ lsnap for ‘. iI’ll poke him, th' dirty blue dog!" = :on the trawl plenty o' l ‘ I35}: I 1 wood 'cr l ’lc-ould be discerned, while a smudge -of smoke to the north bctokened the g resence of some ocean liner plowing llier appointed course. Impressed with [the beauty of it allâ€"the immenSity of the ocean and the frailness of their ‘tiny eighteen-foot dory, the boys pull-, led silently, with the ripple of their fpasrsage and the working of the oars 1against the tholeâ€"pins alone breaking ‘the quiet of the sleeping sea. About 'a mile from the vessel Shorty unship- pod his cars. “’Vast rowin’l" he igrunted. Jules backwatered, and the ldory floated motionless. “Gimme the end line 0’ that first tub!” Jules cast the tub becket adrift and ,handed the looped end of the baited and coiled trawl to his companion, who iproceeded to make it fast to the small buoy anchor.‘ “All right, Sabot. Ship yer oars an’ pull down to’ards Westley Carson thar’." And Shorty hove the buoy, with its black ball inserted, over into the water, while, as Jules rowed, the ibuoy-line was paid out. When‘the line ‘had snaked over the gunwale and the gbuoy floated, black ball upraiscd, far 'asiern, Frank hove the anchor out, and, standing with the tub before him, .he threw the baited line into the sea 'by means of a heaving stick--â€"the baited hooks and their dependent gangins coming clear of the main or back line as he dexterously whirled the line out of the coil in the tub. With the adept manner of an old trawler, Shorty hove the gear out Without a single snarlâ€"twentyâ€"one hundred feet of line with six hundred and seventy hooks on gaugins or snoods spliced into it requires some skill to handleâ€"â€" and when at last the gear had been “shot,” he grunted a “vast rowin‘ ” to his doryâ€"mate and made the “tub em" cf the trawl fast to the second anchor and threw it over. Riding to the r‘oding of the last anchor, they lazed away the time for twenty minutes in order to give the fish prowling over the bottom, two hundred and seventy feet below, a chance to sample the succulent her- ring and squid bait, which, oily, tasty, and glittering, was well calculated to lure any ordinary cod to bite. Jules and Shorty, with the ease and abandon of hardened trawlers, stretched them- selves out in the bow and stern of the dory and lit up their pipes. Jules, lolling over the bow, was the first to speak. “O-ah, Shorten!” he [cried suddenly. “Regardez le requin! :Oh. le gros requiu!” And he pointed linto the cool green depths below them. '-' 1 “What?” ejaculated the other. :“Rekin? What th’ deuce is that? Oh, Eyes, a shark. Gee, ain’t he a brute!" i A long, rakish black body, fully ’ ieight feet in length, floated in the Ewater just below the dory. The dorsal - , {and tail fins quivered slightly, and a wicked blue eye winked as the boys looked over the dory gunwale. “Look at. th‘ lJl‘lg‘lltEI‘ winkin’." cried “He's awaitin' 'til we start aâ€"liaulin’ th’ trawl, then he‘ll make a a fish. Gimme ih’ fork an' The pew, or pitchfork was handed over, and Shorty poised it for a lunge. “Steady now. not a word!" hissed the boy. and his arm drove down like lightning. Bang! There came a smack on the dory bottom which almost stove the thin planks, and the water swirled in foam the shark, with the fork imâ€" bedded in his eye. lashed around. Shorty yanked llic pew clear, and [Mister Shark sunk down into the 4 ldepths below. “That got him," growl- {ed the _ {French harpooner jubilantly. lad laughed nervously. didn't like sharks, and said so. “I no lak (lem i'equim. One man l know trawl in dorce goi hand bit off by requin one (am. Me much afraid." I ' Shorty spat contemptuously. “Tchu! :they ain't no 'count. I've caught 'em He Shore. Me’n Long Dick lure ‘sprits'iyarded them lots 0‘ Linie:. Yank their jaws open an' jam :1 piece o' 055 thci!‘ mouth so‘s they can't .lirew almost exactly what he The ‘ zimcs up th'i shut it. They're a pestâ€"~giitin‘ in,l among;r yer gear an’ cuttin' it all t", pieces. Mo’n Dick lost three tubs o'! trawl one afternoon ‘count 0’ sh:n‘ks.“‘ Shâ€"liu-u-uh.’ A great black bulk! lu‘okc watci‘ a scant cable's length away. and a j('l of steam-like vapor Fll-‘it into thc air. “Whale!” cricrl‘ Shorty. “dalciiic!” piped Jules, and they wnlchcd i'm- huge mammal up- end with a lazy roll and sound for tlicf depths again after striking the water a resounding smack with his enormous tail. Sli-h-uâ€"uâ€"uh! Another huge} black l'czirl appeared, blow a jet of vapor, and sounded, and almost in- stantly a whole school of a doch or? more broke the glassy mirror of the} sea. ‘ “Look! a hull {loot 0' them!" shouted ,Sliorty excitedly. ’Ifllmli! VVarn’t that l a monster! Gucwhillikins! they’re in‘ among th' gear. Look at Westley" lshoutin' an' wavin’ his oars! Thar’s,‘ iJud Haskins doin' th' same. They're; 'foul 0' his gear. Look at his dory! Look at him tearin‘ through th’ water! Ah, he's swampin’â€"no, he's cutl adriftâ€"” ' The gambolling school were breakâ€" ing water all around, and the men were standing up in the «lories shout- ing and yelling. Jud Haskins was fouled, sure enough, and to save being ,towed under by the entangled levi- latlfan he had cut his trawl. With the shouting and yelling the huge mam- mals, more frightened than the men, were. plunger] for the depths, and when they broke Water again the school were far to windward and well clear. It was but the happening of a minute, and all that remained as evi- dence of the incident was the sight of Haskins and his dory-mate rowing up ‘to the weather buoy'to pick up the i end of their parted trawl. “Waal, ain't this a day, Sabot?” ejaculated Shorty. “Sharks an’ then whales. Wonder what‘ll happen next?” He gravely stowed his pipe away, and shipped the gurdy winch across the bow gunwales of the dory. “Cal’late we'll haul th’ gear now, Sabot. I’ll gurdy up the anchor an' you coil the line aspit comes in.” The anchor line, wound up by the little hand-winch, came in quickly, and in a few minutes the anchor with the end line of the trawl showed at the rail. “Ketch holt!" The boy unshipped the winch and placed the hardwood pulley or roller into the dory gunwale, and While Jules hung on to the trawl, he slipped the woollen circlets or “nip- pers” over his hands and grasped the line. “New for th’ haull Git yer anchor out th’ way, Sabot, an’ bring th’ tub over her an’ coil th’ gear as I haul it in. Savvy?” “I savvy,” answered the obeying the commands. “Now!” And Shorty commenced heaving the twenty-one hundred foot length of heavy trawl over the roller, while Jules, immediately aft of him, coiled the gear back in the tub again. A good hundred feet of the line wasi hauled in, and the first dozen'hooks came up with the baits still on them. “Good Sign,” 'grunted Shorty. “Allus more on th’ trawl than comes up on th' first shot/‘0’ gear. Ah, here he comes! We ain’t skunk dory, anyway. Stand by t’ gaff any that fallsoil". Uh!” And a huge cod came limply up to the gunwale. Grasping the line of? the roller, the boy swung the fish in- board by a dexterous turn of the wrist, and the jerk caused the hook to break free, while the fish flopped into the pen prepared for it in the bottom of the dory. Hauling steadily with the old fish- erman‘s pull, Shorty braced his feet firmly, and grasping the wet, liardl cotton line with his nippered hands, pulled the trawl over the clacking lignumâ€"vitae wheel with but a mo- mentary pause when he lifted an extra heavy fish over the gunwale and snap- ped it off into the pen. Jules behind him, coiled deftly, and broke off only to gaff an escaping fish or to twist the book out of a cod with the gob stick when it proved too much for his mate to slat clear. It took the boys a good hour and a half to haul the gear, and when they trought'the last buoy aboard Shorty ,was dripplni.r perspiration with his lexeitions. The sky had become ovcr-,I cast in the meantime and the (loryl rolled over a great swell, which tossed: them upon its crest and then dropped them into a valley of limpid green, lShorty loosened his oilskiri coat and: 'glanced over the fish in the ili.~1Ԥ: bot-j Jtom. “Cal’latc we ain't done so bad‘ {for our first set Bankin'. ’l‘liar's a good eighty or a hundred large fish, thar". Now for th' second tub. ling, the other gear out th' way. 'in' gimme a drink from th' dory jar beside you.” ulcs understood hardly a word of 'wha‘. his companion was saying, yet; [with wonderful boyish intuition he‘ other, i l “fng lashed to do. 1 “(‘ast tli' tub ged’et off now an", heucc out that gear, Sabot. I‘ll row" this time~â€"" Bang! The reiiort came from the Schooner, and a aim-y sack fluttered from the signal halliards at the top-, mzislhiad. “What's dat?" (:llG(l Jules. “Th’ queer thing’s h'isted!" repliedl the other. "Tie up yer tub again ship yer oars. We rc wantcl aboard.” From all points of tilt compass the doi‘ies could be seen pullii.,2r tewardsl A » uYi suck the schooner, and when the boysi : ranged alongside in the swell they ' :were grccteil with shouts and jests -f:‘om the nien already aboard and. 'those in the zlm‘ics waiting l.) lay ,:.'cngsido and pitch out their fish. “‘llcw many d‘ye git. Shorty?" "High :lcvy, l cal‘lnte!" 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