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"Yes, sir. The appearances were false, but as for seamanship, sir, this vessel could not do what she does were it not for the strict training aboard her, sir. I'll wager our lads can out-maneuver and outsail any schooner of her tonnage on the seas, Gloucestermen included. The navy is easy compared to our discipline." "But what holds the men to it if it's so hard?"
A ver-y fine and a-ble and handsome gen-tle-man a wonderful man." "That's a little better. And his name?" "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 break-down to show you how glad I am." "Now you're showing something like appreciation.
"Guess you'll have to get off and push the Nettie B. before you can beat those Gloucestermen, Nat," she said, teasing him. "Say, I've heard about all I want to hear about that!" he snarled, suddenly losing control of himself as they walked back to the little cabin. The girl looked at him in hurt amazement. Never in all her life had a man spoken to her in such a tone.
Do you remember that last schooner-yacht race across the Atlantic? when two or three reporters went along, and after they got back wrote all kinds of stories of what a desperate trip it was how rough it was and dangerous! Well, that time there were three or four Gloucestermen making the run to Iceland.
There were Gloucestermen among it, the champion fishers of the world, who spent their spare time in drifting past the English boats and hurling salty wit at which pastime they often came off second best. There were Frenchmen, too, from the Miquelon Islands, who worked in colored caps and wore sheath-knives in belts around their waists.
OFF Cape Sable the fleet was overhauled by a half-dozen schooners bound the same way, which displayed American flags at their main trucks as they came up. "Gloucestermen!" said Nat Burns at the wheel of the Nettie B. "Set balloon jib and stays'l and we'll give 'em a try-out." The men jumped to the orders, and the Nettie gathered headway as the American schooners came up.
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