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Updated: October 26, 2025
But it was not his fund of information, or his tales, that first of all interested me in Tom Anderly. I had told nobody not even Ben Gibson about the actual event of my being swept out to sea from Bolderhead, nor had I said a word about my father. The fact that he had been a sea-going physician would not help me hold my own with the crew of the Scarboro.
Rolled like a mummy in the blankets, and laid on this bed, the feathers had plumped up about the vagabond boy and almost buried him. But his eyes were wide open pale blue eyes, with light lashes and eyebrows, which gave his thin, white countenance a particularly blank expression. "Heigho, my lad!" exclaimed Mr. Cameron, in his jolly way. "So your name is Jonas Hatfield, of Scarboro; is it?"
We rowed rapidly toward the bark and made fast to the hoisting tackle. We had a sling let down for the second mate, who was still unconscious. Before we got him on the deck and got aboard ourselves, Captain Rogers had all hands remaining aboard at work to stop the dreadful leak. Had all six of the boats been out at this time I fully believe the Scarboro would have gone to the bottom.
Therefore I was not really cognizant of what was going on until half the crew of our boat began to shriek a multitude of commands and advice. Then I looked up and saw that the bull whale for a second time was charging the Scarboro. It was plain the old fellow realized that the bark was his enemy. He paid no attention to the boat that was tearing through the sea behind him.
"Howsomever, come the second spring the Bennetts had been up here, Mis' Bennett, old Bill's wife, was called down to see her ma, that was sick, they said, and that left Miss Sally to keep house. Come the first Saturday thereafter and Bennett, he had to go to Scarboro to mill. "You know jest how lonesome it is up here now; 'twas a whole sight wuss in them days.
In each boat belonging to the Scarboro there was stowed a lance-gun in place of the lances. The bomb-lance is surer than the old-time lance, and keeps the boat and crew farther from the seat of peril. I rose up as soon as we drove in near the big bull that we had been approaching. And it was a big fellow! I think it was as large a sperm as we had seen.
"There were common sailors on that ship that turned up a thousand dollars in pocket when they were paid off," said Ben Gibson, when we were discussing it. "The second mate, with his one-forty-fifth, cleaned up three thousand. Hope I'll do half as well in the same length of time with the Scarboro."
With a terrific splash of his tail, the fighting whale rolled over, after rebounding from the bark, and lay, seemingly stunned! The bark, driven over almost on her beam ends, righted slowly. We knew the whale must be as good as dead, but we had no thought for him then. The smashing of the Scarboro might mean torture and death to every man of her crew.
Cheshire Scarboro; no less!" And she paused, to let that highly important statement sink in. Mrs. Cheshire Scarboro was the Leader of the Opposition. She'd had a lifelong feud with old Sophronisba, who said that when the Lord wanted to try himself out in the way of a fool, He made Cissy Scarboro. They hated each other as only relations can hate. Naturally, Mrs.
Behind this point of rocks was an inlet and the pool made good anchorage without doubt, for there were several sail there, and a jumble of huts on the shore. We had seen whales for several days and once passed a whaleship at work trying out; but it was not the Scarboro.
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