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Nothing was seen or heard of the barque after that night, but the fears of those aboard the full-rigger were great lest trouble should have come to her. When they arrived in London an account was sent to them of the loss of their companion in the China Seas.
From The Saturday Evening Post When Judge Priest, on this particular morning, came puffing into his chambers at the courthouse, looking, with his broad beam and in his costume of flappy, loose white ducks, a good deal like an old-fashioned full-rigger with all sails set, his black shadow, Jeff Poindexter, had already finished the job of putting the quarters to rights for the day.
Kettle looked up. "Here a minute, Captain." Poor Kettle's eye lit, and he came up the ladders with a boy's quickness. Image nodded toward the deserted vessel. "Fine full-rigger, hasn't she been? What do you make her out for?" "'Frisco grain ship. Stuff in bulk. And it's shifted." "Looks that way. Have you forgotten all your 'mainsail haul' and the square-rig gymnastics?"
Many years after, two vessels were racing down the China seas, one of them a new barque heavily sparred and very crank, and the other a large, full-rigged ship. Both were rushed through the sea at great speed. The full-rigger, with Norman Burnside in command, drew ahead of the barque and lost sight of her in the darkness.
When Judge Priest, on this particular morning, came puffing into his chambers at the courthouse, looking, with his broad beam and in his costume of flappy, loose white ducks, a good deal like an old-fashioned full-rigger with all sails set, his black shadow, Jeff Poindexter, had already finished the job of putting the quarters to rights for the day.
Father owns some ships in the East India trade and has a plantation up on the Brandywine creek. Last night I was at our warehouse by the wharves. Father was inside talking to one of his captains who had just come to port. I wanted to see the ship she's a full-rigger, three or four times as big as this, and fast too for her burden. Well, I went down on the dock where she was moored.
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