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Updated: May 12, 2025
"These skip-jacks who talk of setting the world on fire will be lucky if they make only blaze enough to warm themselves." "Ay, indeed and getting rich. Talk's cheap, but it takes a deal of money to buy land," said his wife, who had a shrewd inkling of her son's ambition, though he had not confessed it to her.
The mind of a woman works with amazing rapidity, but it is impossible to see the direction it will take. There are little insects known to our childish days as skip-jacks. Scratch them with the end of a piece of grass, and they reward you for your pains they will jump bound with one spasmodic leap and vanish. So is the working of a woman's mind.
He had seen clam dredges bringing up bushels of soft-shelled, long-necked clams that the dredgers called "manos," and he had seen the famous Maryland "bugeyes" and "skip-jacks" sailing craft used for dredging oysters. The boats were not operated during the oyster breeding season from the end of March until September. Rick's interest in the life of the great bay was to be expected.
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