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Do you mean seal-poaching? Oh, come along, Hank, and let's find out." "What's the use of huntin' trouble?" said the old man. "Go back to bed." "Not much," retorted the boy; "if you don't want to come, I'll go, anyway." "If you're goin' anyway," grumbled the old whaler, "I reckon it's no use my sayin' anythin' to stop you.
The story had to do with the defense of seal fisheries against the Japs, and Jones was sure that a Japanese seal-poaching boat had bombed them. McPherson, who had seen active service chasing German subs, was certain they had encountered one of the missing U boats. Wilder believed it had been a Russian cruiser, and, of course, Jarvis blamed it to the "bloomin' 'eathen."
Orange groves, peach orchards, prune orchards, wheat raising, lumbering, horse-farms; chicken-ranches, bee-ranches, sheep-breeding, seal-poaching, cod-fishing, salmon-canning each of these has held out the same glittering possibility. Even the humblest ventures have caught the prevailing tone of speculation.
That gray monotony of sea is not at all homelike, being as yet new and not used to the procession of keels. It holds a very few pictures and the best of its stories those relating to seal-poaching among the Kuriles and the Russian rookeries are not exactly fit for publication. There is a man in Yokohama who in a previous life burned galleons with Drake.
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