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No, nor anybody else in the old square-enders he gen'rally sails in. I'll bet he's glad to change winter trawling for summer seining. I'll bet he put in a few wakeful nights on the Banks in his time mind the time he parted his cable and came bumping over Sable Island No'the-east Bar? Found the only channel there was, I callate.
He was pointin' 'bout no'the-east then, but he couldn't 've held on that tack long or he'd be somewhere up by Miquelon and not here this mornin' the gait he was goin'. Man, but there was smoke coming out of his scuppers when he went by. 'Why don't y' come aboard whilst you're about it come aboard and be sociable, I hollers. 'Oh, don't cry, y' ain't hurted, says whoever's to the wheel of her.
So in a subdued voice he began the recitation of one of the incidents that have helped to make orphans of Gloucester children: "Twelve good vessels fighting through the night Fighting, fighting, that no'the-east gale; Every man, be sure, did his might, But never a sign of a single sail Was there in the morning when the sun shone red, But a hundred and seventy fine men dead Were settling somewhere into the sand On Georges shoals, which is Drowned Men's Land.
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