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"Albacore!" cried Ben Brace, as soon as he saw them shooting alongside the raft. "Albacore be they. Now, Snowy, out wi' your hooks an' lines. In this fresh breeze they be a'most sure to bite; and we'll be able, I hope, to make up for the loss o' the others. Hush all o' ye! Ne'er a word; ne'er a movement to scare 'em off. Softly, Snowy! Softly, ye ole sea-cook."
The fishing fleet were loaded to the gunwales with albacore. The fish must be worked up at once. A loss of even twenty-four hours would render them worthless. Gregory reflected bitterly that he had other creditors. Had Rock obtained other due and unpaid accounts?
The captains of the fishing-boats reported their craft to be better than half laden when the Richard arrived alongside. The fish were still running strong. In another hour, without interference, they might be loaded. At Gregory's direction the albacore fishermen began cruising toward the north channel. The next thing to do was to marshal the fleet to withstand Mascola's attack from the rear.
"If you come to that," his father asserted; "nothing handsomer will ever be seen than an East India-man in the northeast trades with the captain on the quarter-deck in a cocked hat and sword, the shoals of flying fish and albacore skittering about a transom as high and carved and gilded as a church, the royal pennant at the mainmast head.
The glow was purely physical, superinduced by the rapidly disappearing contents of the slim-nosed bottle which stood at his elbow. The good humor was due to other causes. As he re-filled his glass, Mascola smiled. It hadn't been such a bad day at that. He'd showed somebody something about albacore fishing. And he'd show them a lot more before he got through.
During the interval, while they were waiting for some change in the tactics of the pursuer, hoping that he might get ahead and abandon the pursuit, Ben imparted to his audience several chapters of his experience, in which either albacore or sword-fish, and sometimes both, had figured as the principal actors.
The other two Japs have short, stiff poles with a wire attached and the barbless hook at the end. They put on a live bait and toss it over. Instantly they jerk hard, and two big white albacore, from fifteen to thirty pounds, come wiggling up on to the stern of the boat. Down goes the pole and whack! goes a club. It is all done with swift mechanical precision.
In dashing down upon the flying-fish, the curving talons of the bird, missing the object for which they had been braced, entered the eye of the albacore.
There was the Albacore running through the northeast trades with royals and all her weather studding sails set.
If you're looking for trouble, this is the place to find it. If you're not, you can move out to sea and get as many fish as we are. We'll not bother you. There's plenty of albacore over here to-night for everybody. If you try to break through us, it will be up to you." Mascola's anger came in a torrent of Italian words. Then he composed himself sufficiently to speak in broken English: "This Mr.
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