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Updated: May 2, 2025
Posh tells me that many owners of drifters considered that the Act applied to all craft, including fishing boats, and that great expense was undergone by some over-conscientious owners in fitting ventilating drums and shafts in accordance with the Act.
Across the lanes of water, armed picket-boats, with preternaturally grave-faced Midshipmen at their wheels, picked their way amongst the traffic of drifters, cutters under sail, hooting store carriers and puffers from the distant base. Mouldy Jakes contemplated the busy scene without undue enthusiasm. "Everything seems to be much the same as usual," was his dry comment.
The surface of the ground was like stone, only by repeated attempts pierced by plows and torn apart; while the subsoil immediately froze if left unworked. The weaker labourers began to break: the scrawny Mexicans, the debilitated white men, the drifters and the dissatisfied; and they left the camps.
We had a lot to learn. We began from an East Coast fishing port, working with crazy drifters manned by East Coast fishermen. There was a retired Admiral in charge, as tough an old terror as ever pulled on a sea boot and half a dozen of us all together, some Active Service and some Reserve like me. Navy? Bless you, we were the Navy, that old Admiral and us six."
Maurice thanked him, for it was a pleasure to run across a chap so different from the usual type of selfish, envious and profligate drifters. They quickly sighted the trees, and Thad, jumping ashore, soon had a line fast around one that would hold them safely until daylight.
Some boats have 600 pounds, I hear; and some few not enough to pay their way. "He came up with a very bad cold and hoarseness; and so went off, poor fellow: he never will be long well, I do think." Probably Posh knew all about the best way of making a profit out of herring drifters, and FitzGerald may have been wrong in fearing that he did not.
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