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Updated: May 20, 2025
The steel head of a two pronged fish spear, a fisherman's knife in its sheath with belt, a paternoster, invaluable for the fathoms of fishing line attached, a small American axe with the head vaselined, a canvas housewife with sail-needles, a few darning needles and some pack thread, and a number of odds and ends including some extra heavy lead sinkers.
One of our leading merchants was a deacon in the Methodist church and so enjoyed the patronage of his brother parishioners. One of them came in one day and asked the paying price of eggs. The deacon told him "sixty cents a dozen." "What are sail-needles?" "Five cents apiece." The brother produced an egg and proposed a swap. It was smilingly accepted and the egg added to the pile of stock.
My sail-needles I thrust at first into the linings of the pockets of my tarred sea-coat. On second thoughts, I drove them into the mattress of my bunk. My hank of twine I dropped on deck later, when I went out to breakfast. Having covered all traces of my morning's work, I washed with a light heart. When some one came to my cabin-door to call me, I cried out that I would be out in a minute.
"He looked me all over I tell you I was pretty ragged; nothin' but a shirt and pants on, and they was almighty tore up, especially where most everybody wants to be covered and Bill was no better. We'd 'bout used up our clo'es so that sail-needles nor nothin' else wouldn't a-done us no good, and we had no time nor no spare cash to go ashore and get others.
"'Some sail-needles and a ball o' twine, I hollered back; 'we got everything else. You should just a-heard him cuss " and one of Captain Bob's laughs rang through the room. "Them's two things I'd forgot didn't think o' them in fact till the mainsheet give 'way. "Well, he chucked 'em aboard with another cuss. I hadn't no money to pay no salvage.
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