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Barren hills the bleak and uninhabited places of the northern coast for a season reflected the lurid glow and echoed the song and shout. Thanks be to God, the fleet was loading! In the drear autumn weather a cloud of sail went to the s'uth'ard doughty little schooners, decks awash: beating up to the home ports. The FATE of The MAIL-BOAT DOCTOR
And when the wind went down, and the day dawned clear again, we put the dogs to my father's komatik and set out for Wayfarer's Tickle: whence Jagger had that morning fled, as Jonas Jutt told us. "Gone!" cried Tom Tot. "T' the s'uth'ard with the dogs. He's bound t' the Straits Shore t' get the last coastal boat t' Bay o' Islands." "Gone!" we repeated, blankly. "Ay but ten hours gone.
"The wind is nor' nor'west, and if you chaps feel like an adventure we'll take a walk around and up the s'uth'ard side of the gulch, where he won't get a smell of us, and maybe we'll have a look at that old rounder that's howling, and who knows but we might get a shot at him and his mates. What do you say?" "Fine!" agreed the boys in unison, springing eagerly up from their chairs.
"What, sir!" exclaimed Jimmy, "are we as far south as that?" "Aye," said the captain, "we're just t' th' s'uth'ard o' Skipper Ed's fishin' place. An' weren't you comin' from there when you goes adrift?" "No, sir," explained Jimmy. "Partner and I are down at Itigailit Island with Abel Zachariah this year, and we went adrift from there." "An' there we goes, then!" said the captain.
"I say, mister, 'ow is it done?" he went on. "It is a simple thing when you know the secret," said De Sylva. "Have you passed Fernando Noronha before, Captain?" "Many a time." "Have you seen the curious natural canal which you sailors call the Hole in the Wall?" "Yes, it's near the s'uth'ard end." "Well, the sea has worn away a layer of soft rock that existed there.
"But if," said Bax, "Long Orrick said he would run to Pegwell Bay, which is three or four miles to the nor'ard o' this, and resolved that he would not go to Fiddler's Cave, which is six miles to the s'uth'ard, why should you go to the very place he's not likely to be found at?" "Because I knows the man," replied Bluenose, with a wink of deep meaning; "I knows him better than you do.
Sheriff bade him curtly enough to "keep her going to the s'uth'ard," and then drew away his partner into the stifling little chart-house. "Now," he said, "you see how it is. Our little admiral up there is standing on his temper, and if he doesn't hear the plan of campaign, he's quite equal to making himself nasty." "I don't mind telling him some, but I'm hanged if I'm going to tell him all.
That seine we lost trying for our first school to the s'uth'ard in the spring was the only bit of misfortune that came, and we had long ago made up for that. But others were not so lucky. There was the loss of the Ruth Ripley, Pitt Ripley's vessel. I think I have said that she was a fast vessel. She was fast fast, but of the cranky type.
We were not the first to market that year, but we were the first since the early flurry, and the biggest stock so far that spring was to our credit. We stood on the deck and watched the porgy steamer come in and tie up, too late for that day's market. Some of our fellows had to ask them where they got their fish to the s'uth'ard or where? and two or three fights came out of it, but no harm done.
At last he got wind of 'em in Cadiz Harbour, and made all sail to catch 'em. It was on the 19th of October 1805 that Villeneuve, that was the French admiral, put to sea with the combined fleets o' France and Spain. It wasn't till daybreak of the 21st that we got sight of 'em, right ahead, formed in close line, about twelve miles to lee'ard, standin' to the s'uth'ard, off Cape Trafalgar.
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