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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-5-4, Page 2BLUE WATER A TALE OF THE DEEP SEA FISHERMEN BY FREDERICK' WILLIAM tx't ALI. ACE. pyrigltt by the MaSaon I.3ook Comeau) How the Story Started. Fran% W esth:•tveo, k own as "Shorty," lives a Lang Cove on Bay' of Fiends .oast with his another and his uncle, Captain Jerry Clark. lie ilii: his el:ratrta Lemuel Ring, drink a bett'.e or rum, whereupon Prank "s uncle tells him the story of his fath- er's fondness for (Irbil: and how the "Grave Wes/haver" went down off Sa a;e Island with ten ea her crew and her skipper. This. hate the desired ef- fect uporr Fr ink, The two boys pilot an It ::ran verset into .anrhoreille to the amt 3r..: liment of Captain Spinney, liatr,u ir.-es ere F ink finishes school with credit to rrinla f mid spends the A At :nit t ao set apprentice to "Lune Dirt;" siert i gs In Ategett Captain Clerk effete litai a p:ssition on osis fishteg beta eel they se- cat for Poster. all PR FOL' Re-- t C.cart'd. A twoiftetreitai, four -masted liner gal luta 2 ra"eevitteil -oast. Shorty cota:,i sife the ai:jtc,rrir;nl ofricers on her ler:tfge> ar-t the whitetiteiaetf piaster sat' r 4, the tear-been:I wing. A trig wes trailing astern, swieging the httlg� 'mat.ts it threeeed ebernel. snit the Nine pranaenatte Fit%:1t was i1•aewxaeett w.;li Iaaa car„ere. -What a nib ter!' aiaauieted Saleeteaatuaist lire tthie, ly "•1 re, kou h meet M YHA• tier mt t� 4 . •c e e tifleat. t r to Jen a nghea "Not by a Icing aa;;, ] e •e lam ::rhes}s o' > �igge> sheet 1131* her. ' Vait tat.. ye ep to t:rs;r I B re er off Sable 15:41-1. Yea! sae there New 'E ors poi kv s 8a-fl.in' pett ;tt twenty knete, ate ,as lair* ars cwt+ c ahem put t'at they, Marr; y', ye".t, )1raa hart: i P don't gee terywherea. near them rn thick weather. I .:he t' set' then; in a (leek best, ar' z:itt then we've Qat th' Cremate with fog an' tattles tearera tarttegh it arta hell -for-' leather trip L+ nk et th' forte, Freak. Se? tri' gait, „ rot ekiri tat? Tlem's Tater I.`zr.di -it's a prate.;:. Great rift o' Ise :4e 'rour! `l hero=. Thar"s , Beg Light. Won't be long now afore we .top ora, re Gay git ter durraage, Frank-th' a :t,;;ms'il he overhauliie ter kit a:oa^ ♦, �:n•f� !'�� i• itt� t ear.f at eat ant Sie<r,y :eel hie tree were' 1.1 a0 c :err Y tri ht- an ori, ' a, who patati them with a laugh ar 1 m joke "You're 'meet a L'r t, d Stats citizen, Can•ett Can k: he :alibi. 'Mete, `s, art net irate." ,,,,• replied ,are: ether. -line Nora S.otatue ern V be. in c't,r"w :n .r'y 1:at roar own.” The immiga.atiee „frier i°aughed. i "That's true, ('a',," be, recurred. My' of clavi was pt'+q er B1ac,iese h+}ntself, Your son, Cap?" Re in lieated'Frank with hat percii. "Nei my r^vvy." "Aim! olein:' another e.l:er young cub It:ter stelae Waal, weal, I dunnu what' Gloater aid do for fishermen -et you Nova Stamen didn't tame ,ravellin" over. Goiel flay, Cap, en' geed leek. t' ye." And i the ofi, o r tetanal away, Nr1,4le the +gots:urn's r...po tt +r+:'ttnio for- ward. "No diammele r'7 ter arw:nage, t°ap?" Ito to eut• jokinteey. Untie Jerry ,tit tel " ti atal new, I don't know iArw•li,it might lie. I w.,s, tltin., . t,e, a"altn r7v vest; ieel's figure hetet to fifew jorttl , an' I'ti. tette a lee�: ar "urt et i tt is you:' The in+sl!e+ tt r made a ea etti ti f maria upt.n the :;ate anti petted on, white a :.eatr,,ter hti flea them on to; his waggon, When the inane tion was'. over uncle ara; nephew pastel out to; the City. "A bigger plata- than Aneizorcille," remarked ('.aptaiti Clark as they staple'. led arour.a1. "`&e tit batilui<tigs, Frank! Snore kits=got t1:` An' that Ellevatel, are th' '1ec' i lc: ears. Ye never saw ` th' like o,' them afore," Sh. rte never had, anal he was init gre- ed�with the immensity of it all, What sights hire unaccustomed eyes had fe_a ted upon that day! The bust - Nag crowds, the whirling Elevated, the buildings, and stores with their wonderful wares. Mingled in hi; brain were memories of the gold -donned State Howie, the Common, and the thronged alleys of commerce down areenrd Washington, State, and Milk Streets. Of eorurse, being fishermen, !they took in T Wharf, and Frank was bewildered with the maze of vessels which herded withal the dock, and he had confused! recot eetions of shaking hands with numerous fishing skippers, of boarding many ve~;seele, of hsteri- ia g to the forty -fathom unit of fish and fish prices, and the relations of full '.ares for market in windy iv -ea - Aker. When they left the od'oriferous pre:ir.:ts of the rash wharf Captain t"'.ark t'ommenced a biographi al eon - meet upon the mei: he had met, and .Sporty listened with awe abed respect. "Tie little stocky man ye met on th' Valhal a iz ,Feb Wessel — a Lunenburg Dutchman an' reg'lar devil t' carry sail. Rea from Portland t' th' Lurcher tai :e iii setearteen him-at—btu-ate a 'gale are thiek o' snooty. Tom Brand tie big man what was with hien, ye m x.t3---tette run :down by a steamer on ttaera 'awn two months ago an' 7est got e:ear o' his ves ei areae she stink , ori him: They were two clays and nights. in Oa dories afore they were . piked up. Th' clerk mart with th' • ge ai wires in his ears is a Portygee— Ma r eel Pe ('osta--• goad Gorges fish- t.rnlitlx --owns a fine verse} knee, quiet mean." And so on. , The time passed quickly --so quick- ; iy 'hat Shorty reit loath to leave Bt,stt'n for (oueester. With reitee- tareee he fa:.lowed his uncle to the .^.tat - a n, sr there re entrainel for the f: mint = M tstethesttte fishing port. It wa r':; when they arrived, and tired our frith the events of the day, the h y .rra. scop fast asleep between the sleets of the betel laid. Neei Ili irtang i*e breakfasted in eompat,y with a tie: neat, laewh"rker- ewi eraatv.i of tt set r:i a,;ers, tvh., talk- ed fiat and dir.u:sel the merits o every ver sea} in the Fart; who prop - Nail,' 1 the ou:Yonie of the s>;.aso:r. arenzed ever the pr to of Bait, ari in- eidenta''y ate up everything in eght. The plea of (,l •ree:atlas fishing skip- pers were et "nnlatei aro nd that Nara. ani Slimy feat hon. red when- ' same. L.rtiole Jerry indicated a starboard bunk filled with an old hawser and: lanyard rope. "That'll he yours,! Fronk;' he said. "When that porters 'brings down yer bag ye'd better; e arge yer clothes an' elean this eabina up. You're spare hand on th' Hastalaa new, a' I cal'late. ye'd better take hold an'start right in or ser job." For the veal two•s da t` Sl art . worked around the vessel. days bal'le'm jib was bent on—the boy serambling up the slender foretopmast ani reev- iug the halliard without experiencing the trepidation of the green hand at his first scramble aleft—ane Uncle Jerry, whi ttatehe.1 him clawing' his. way up the foregaff-tolrsail halliards with more fear than was felt by his nephew, was seeretly pleased. Then,' with a pot of paint, Prank ts-ay-ez1 his artistic" abilities upon trawl tubs, pen boards, ar..d other gear around 'leeks. coming in for a great deal of r -°"ugh chaff from the gang rigginga their trawls around the sun-floosiesl quarter. and waist of the eehooner. Rog'lar bird, that poo spare hand of our ,i; remarlre;l an oil trawler, aalressin;� nobody in liartieular. Q "'Yep! he's a dog.' said another' slyly, "Goin' t' work bard an' git a4 vc.r`.:el aeon so's he kin hitch up with, that Dexter girl back to Long Cove."1 Sherry, , > .i i e +sly painting u trawl tub, heats, aro blash'd ven�seiously. } • hull of the sehoonee, noted the well - stayed t z mite, the long varnished m in!tboem stretching over' the teffreil, and the graceful fore-and-aft sheer which swept in a glorious curve from the break of the quarter to- terminate in the scroll -work of a carved. figure- head erownirig the sweet clipper bow what dist ieguiel ed a type Of fishing sanhoca=ier se:•dom designed uowa4ays', She was a ninety-five termer carry- ing ten double -trawl• dories nested in five.. amidships, and as she swam in the clear green water of the doek she bake l a queen among the r tety„hu., l'ed salt Bankers crowding the bertha. Uncle and nephew scrambled abroad at last, and the latter found himself among many friends, as most of the Kasta>ia's Brew ware Bay Shore men who had followed their skipper to G?•nut*eater vessers. Indeed, there are mere Nova S cotians and Newfound- lend;.zs in G:oueester than there are Ameriiazis—a peculiar c:sroditio i •of affairs whieh is, nevertheless, a fact, ""Come below, Frank," said the Captain, and; both entered the cabiu. It was an oak-panelli4 a1.iartment with a stove in the een•ta-e of it which took up me t of the room. Lockers ran all arounl, a:::1 double bunks were ret, cave-1iike, into the reaps on both side:, and stilt more cave -life aft of the ettnipanion-ladder, where the e:lreping-places stret;°lied up into the, run between counter and deek, A mist. ce:;aneous heap of tarred cotton trawl line littered the floor, du*zrage bags and suit -cares were hove Carel sslx° into the hunks, and the place emeslt. stroirgly of tar, tabaeco, and new oil. ° i re. ever one of theses great men rte gnecl to norther -e him. "Had eiesnig;h to eat, Frank?". queried Lie tangle. Snnrtt rare' soli, 1 •' ' %,e ::, t ' r!. tt e .1 git eloten rtbr,-ad, (hook came Il'::: leo-nate. en' I eerie th' gang is 'mart all herr. (,o git yer beg an' we'll hey tit' porter carry it down for us." Ansi havint; the hotel, they bore up for the watsr-front. There were to t, v vessels in pert, and around their &eats sat the gange taming gear. Herr. and there were vessels being overhaulcvl, end the tap -tap of caulk - nig mallets a hoed among the alleya of fish sheds. Everybody seemed busy. Here was a man painting d' r ler: , there rnother was making trawl tubs, - abre:,.d the ve*sstit the various fangs Were working wit1. trawl- plieer ore hook -set riga,^'ng new gear or over- bauain; old, and the wl:,erves seemed to hum with life. Stacks of salt ii •h' were wheeler} in and out of tae shed, tai Italr•.en barque was disabarging '!•i.t1 .i salt by moans of a tub and ntaln ,trel ar e. a three -masted serif .ones was 1oa:din t salt cod for the West Indies --everything was fish or }nconnta ,ionwith sh Gloucester'sce5tox• s wealth lay in the shoal waters of the open Atlantie, as also many of her Captain Clark pointed to a schooner watch lay at the end of a wharf. "Ti ear's th' Kastalia, Frank," he said prcu.ly. "How's she look to you?" Shorty regarded the vessel with ill - concealed admiration, and he breathed his approval. "Ain't she a dandy, Un,le, A realer yacht she looks. "Aye, Frankie," assented the other, "an' she's jest as good as shit looks. We put a lot o' money into that ves- sel sixteen thousand dollars she cost t' build --but she's one o' th' finest fishermen that ever left th' ways of an Essex yard, Burgess designed her, an' he never made a better tooth- pick in his life. She's hardwood buiit— every plank of her is American oak, an' she's full o' hangin' knees an' ironed in every place whar' strength is needed—an' she's proved her strength many a time." Sherty gazed over the shining black 057173' ill �i A. CI' ItirI% :-.- r"1 f TERES The s` 2&o You CAN worm it our IN NY sweAT Strop 0 eat tatea if 1 etia eR t'h eat "Got a girl has he?" queried an- 0 oder: man eplioing a tub beolcet. "Hr's a devil of •a feller that new spare band, ain't he?" And during the day Shoats had to stand for all ,he's pzrivate ataita be- ing aired, dteeussed, and eritieized by a gang of ggaaeip=.iovrng fishermen who took a eea:ret pleasure in roasting hint. They :nada a great mistake, however; and those who knew the Shorty Westhaver of Lenny Cove I should have been wiser by evperien. Ja,tk Hansa= arta J• hinny Leblaie, two dairy-matee who had been doing meat cf the ehafting, found their best shore- ting besets floatin axaun� in a but g g d t of fish oil that evening, and when turning in aboutiidnight discovered a good gloss of Arthur James num- ber seventeen fish-hooks scattered liberally to their bunk blankets. When they crawled cur: efulta aft to have it out with the perpetrator they kind hien sleeping peacefully, with but hie; tousled, sandy- het! appearing above' the blanket Aboerd a fishing vessel a m'an's sleep ie always respected, and Shorty escaped a rope's ending more' from this than from his apparently' innocent appearance and the victnns. clattered for'ard again to comb the, fish -corks out of each other. Next day all hands turned to int ramble gangs getting the salt aboard area loaded into the bins in the holed, i and Shorty spent the day on the wharf tallying the malt and stores as they canoe down, And lie carded out iiia duties well—so we;] that when Iasi uncle glaneecl Over the neat entries in the notebook he smiled in pleasure. (To be continued.) 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There are certain points of every- day tele etiquette that may fit- tingly be spoken cf, for breathes in it are made daily. Very obnoxious is the telephoner who, after assuring himself that he has the right party, insists en your guessing who he is. You have the choice of either enter- ing into his game and mentioning u variety of names•, or of flatly refus- ing to have it continued as a matter of mystery. The question is often raised whether Mira Mary Smith shall an- nounce otter the telephone, "This is Miss Smith" or "This is Mary Smith. Generally e peaking, in busines,e she will give herself heir title when talk- ing ever the wire, so she will say "This is alias Smith." On the other hand, in social life it is. good form to leave off the "Mass" unless you are speaking to a comparative stranger. There are manly persons who don't know how or when to. say good-bye. It seems to be the unwritten rule that the one who Balls up should be the one to Heald it off. Apparently this goes back to the practical lye - eon that the person who had cause to telephone is the ane to know when he has completed. his mission. If there i, nothing more important to be said and the caller -up seems reluctant to ring off, tee cominon, sense about nintiarting the good-byes. Ona should ,allwaya be careful about what is diseasised over the wire. It is better taste not to talk personal affairs. Another erefortunate habit is that elf oalldng up for an extended conver- sation without asking the person •rai- led if it is convenient or net. Prob- ably many are familiar with the situa- tion in which the telephone breaks the lively clamor of dinner conversation and all good cheer must be hushed for the sake of the telephone. Always be careful that your mood isn't .projected :over the wire to a per- feotly in teccnt viotim. The person who's cal'lieg gets, thio short toner without any • of the • extenuating • eir- cumstances. Something To Take Care •Of.. • "Oh, mother, I wish I had a •cat or a dog ar a baby—or some kind' of an animal," sighed the little bay one dray. He was ,expressing the nata,ral desire every child has to care for and pro - teat something smaller than himself. This is a very good wish foo a child to have and the wise mother uses it at once to develop a feeling of, tender- nets and responsibility. The cat and the dog and the baby ehouId be in every family if possible, but there are other ways to please the child if them;; ale a.a.t cif the gine- tion. One mother put :t bawl of goal - filth on a law magazine stand., and let her littler boy feed them each dry, He vista interested in watching their habits and he and his mother often 'tsiked about the tiny, beautiful fishes. Another boy was a given geranium at f. a church eon,cert and curet for it all winter. He was very proud when it blossomed before his brother's did, and watered it carefully every morn- ing. A small bed of pansies was given to a little girl one spring day, and she was told it was her flowerbed to care for. Her mother suggested that she supply the table with pansies, picking a few at a. time for a low dish, then showed the child how to combine col- ors to make Lively effects. The little girl learned many things about Row - ere that summer and tended her gar- den faithfully, with Dove in every touch she gave the pansies. 'Wholesome Horne Life. Very much of the earliest education, the most valuable and enduring, is that which is acquired in the home, through the medium •of imitation. The child begins to copy the sights and sounds about him. Thus the first words are Iearned. During the entire period of his childhood he imitates the language and manners and emotions of older ones about him. If he lives among people whose language is cor- aeet and: agreeable, and whose man- ners are pleasant, behavior gentle and kind he will unnonsailottely acquire similar ways. If kindness and oonsideration for each other are the rule in the home, these qualities will impress them- s'elvee upon the .ehila. Good man- ners are a valuable asset to every per- son, but good manners have their origin in fine qualities of mina and heart.- Men who as children heard profane language daily in the home to -day use it, however well educated they may be. Untidy, shiftleee, tli'iti1t- less examples in the 'home burn out men and women stamped with the -le undesirable and harmful qualities. It is very clear that parents have an en- ormous responsibility toward the chile - dean they rear, A "Novel" Party. The guests are seated at tables and -supplied with two old magazine -s, a pair ,of shears and paste. The h.ostese then 'bawds out to each a blank book whieh, she has made of eight or ten sheets el ' paper tried together` with bright ribbon. Each book has on the cave the head of one of the guests, MULTiPLIES Men Paas, Ay FIVE PYViH est„s A $ing e Wheel .Tractor and Cultivator Combined. Sprytvheel does any work for enrich a wheel or hand hoe ert be used Doer, Five Times As Muth. Small enough for the haireere htzpe gardener --a labor saver and snortey maker tor every market gardener, nurseryman and fernier, insuring Uniformly Thorough and Economical Cultivation, For full tntorinattcn and Uesorlptive Literature Agents Write Now 52 C La RN5 ST„ 1 P TORONTO cut from a snapshot. The guests must! a we or two, it is about that timet use the girl whose poet are is on their i that the child should thew sell-oo book for their heroiie, finding a suit- eeiousnes3 and have "the fe l' ly able title for their novel from =erg self It will know itself z a mi rro# the advertising pages of the maga,. and loop intelligently at its own haat, tineas with whieh they :fret supplied, k and knots- U at they ase its own. 'het'a#. C The novel itself should lie niain'.y pie- the dsUerence between the hauuaan and tures, and can follow the aetuai life the animal, of the girl, or be pm-ely f etitices, Any A child with a very firm and tight; printing that, appears must be eut grip is, as_a- rule, ot:o tvltlt excellent fro advertise-Dante.mental eat iprrtent. An hear or so spent in this planner Plena f R Plenty oum, prom lots of fun and at the end of the allotted tante the books etre handed l never go to eherth,' the milt over to the various girls they are 'Bonaire paid. "I guts ;you've noticed, about. You will find a good del, of thin, bl l!,,° • originality among the novelists and "1.es, i have noticed itx' staid the a prize ran be given for the book tltt;hale gravt+ "!' voted the best,, although this will not ”"t gttesai yap wnnaler who' I never be ne •easary, time the boar them- go to s'<hurch, (414't you?" tae 1a11l1°13" etre pureued, "Feil, tell you aloeelvesnalto mighty inter@stin„ sou- bishop. 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