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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Of course we will have the Marrs," said Aunt Faith; "and Gideon Fish also." "Oh, Aunt Faith! Not Gideon?" said Bessie. "Poor Gid! If he could hear you say so," said Hugh, laughing. "I wish he could," answered Bessie hotly; "he does not understand a hint." "How should he, doubly enrolled as he is in his own self-importance?" said Hugh.
One after another they were coming into view, their long hulls and high spars reaching across the wind. Between the gray sky and the slaty sea their white sails looked whiter than chalk. We had to name the different vessels then. "There's Tom O'Donnell and Wesley Marrs and Sam Hollis and " sung out Andie Howe. "Sam Hollis where's Sam Hollis?" broke in Mel Adams.
Even at that we had to crawl out on the bowsprit six or eight of us with sharp knives, and cut it away, and we were glad to get back again. The Johnnie never slackened. It was desperate work. Rounding Minot's, Tom O'Donnell gave an exhibition of desperate seamanship. He had made up his mind, it seems, that he was due to pass Wesley Marrs along here. But first he had to get by the Withrow.
If the stocky little man heard the hails that were sent after him, he made no sign, unless a faint dipping of his sou'wester back over his windward shoulder was his way of showing it. He had business yet, had Wesley Marrs. There was a tug and a barge and another big seiner in his course.
And then we felt like cheering her, and her skipper Wesley Marrs, too, as he stood to the wheel and sung out, "Couldn't scare you, could I, Maurice. I thought you'd haul your seine-boat in. I've got your extra seine," and swept by.
With you on the quarter and Clancy to the wheel she ought to do great things." "Oh, we'll race her as well as we know how if we're around, but Tom O'Donnell and Wesley Marrs and Tommie Ohlsen and Sam Hollis and the rest they'll have something to say about it, I'm afraid." "What of it? You've got the vessel and you must win I'll bet all the loose money I have in the world on her.
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