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Updated: May 25, 2025
That Saturday night was one never to be forgotten by others beside Jack Bracken and the old preacher of Cottontown. When Helen Conway, after supper, sought her drunken father and learned that he really intended to have Lily and herself go into the cotton mills, she was crushed for the first time in her life. An hour later she sent a boy with a note to The Gaffs to Harry Travis.
Gaffs and booms were in their places, and the sails furled upon them. The figuration of the main hatch showed a small square, and there was a companion or hatch-cover abaft the mainmast. There was no trace of a boat.
I ran to the windlass. It would not work. He had broken it. We looked at each other in consternation. Then I ran to the side. The masts, booms, and gaffs I had cleared were gone. He had found the lines which held them, and cast them adrift. Tears were in Maud's eyes, and I do believe they were for me. I could have wept myself. Where now was our project of remasting the Ghost?
All of it, which was exposed to the weather, was in bales, weighing each a fourth of a ton and with bulging white spots in their bellies where the coarse cotton baling failed to cover their nakedness. It was cotton cotton cotton. Seed, ginned, lint, baled, cotton. The Gaffs was a fine estate of five thousand acres which had been handed down for several generations.
Beyond her she saw the smoke-stack of the mill, and a short cut through a meadow of The Gaffs would soon take her there. She failed to see a warning on the fence which said: Keep out Danger. Through the bars she went, intent only on soon reaching the mill beyond and glorying in the strong rich smell of autumn in leaf and grass and air.
They also learned that the yards at the head of the main and mizzen sails are called gaffs, and those at the bottom, booms. "I think that's about enough for you to remember in one day, young masters," John Lirriper said.
They also learned that the yards at the head of the main and mizzen sails are called gaffs, and those at the bottom, booms. "I think that's about enough for you to remember in one day, young masters," John Lirriper said.
Afterwards came Franklin and the news that Captain Tom had been killed. But General Jeremiah Travis could not keep out of the war; for toward the last, when Hood's army marched into Tennessee the Confederacy called for everything even old age. And so there rode out of the gates of The Gaffs a white-haired old man, who sat his superb horse well. He was followed by a negro on a mule.
They are decked, and are from forty to one hundred tons burden. They are peculiarly rigged, having only lower masts stepped at different angles. The gaffs of the fore-sail, as well as the main-sail, can be raised to different heights. They have fore stay-sail, jib and flying jib, gaff top-sails, and a large square sail and square top-sails.
It would be sold, even the last hundred acres of it, with the old home on it. Gone gone all her former glory all her family tradition, her memories, her very name. Gone, and The Gaffs remained! Remained in all its intactness its beauty its well equipped barns with all the splendor of its former days.
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