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* It is said that as the odd two-master slid gracefully into the water, a spectator exclaimed: "See how she scoons!" "Aye," answered Captain Robinson, "a SCHOONER let her be!" This launching took place in 1718 or 1714. Before the Revolution the first New England schooners were beating up to the Grand Bank of Newfoundland after cod and halibut.
And he says that the word was born on the Clyde, grew up in New England, migrated to Holland, and then came back to us again. Once upon a time at Gloucester, Massachusetts, a man was witnessing a new fore-and-aft rigged vessel glide away on a trial trip, and exclaimed "She scoons!" So all her kind were christened. Science of that kind is almost as good as romance. XIX. Illusions
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