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This boat is the bench whereon you wait for the launch to carry you down the Pond, for the catboat or thirty-footer to be brought in from her moorings, for Cap'n Perry to land with a load of oysters; or it is the bench you sit upon to watch the sunset glow behind the pines on the opposite headland, the pines where the blue herons roost, or to see the moon track on the dancing water.
Crockett answered. "Then sell her. She's too large for me, and she's worth less every year. I want a thirty-footer that I can handle myself for knocking around the Bay, and that won't cost a thousand. Sell the Freda and put the money to my account. Now what you three are afraid of is that I'll misspend my money taking to drinking, horse-racing, and running around with chorus girls.
"Pirates?" gasped the three members of the Fortuna's crew. "That's what I'd call them," replied Frank. "You see, my chum and myself came down the Mississippi River in a gasoline launch. She was a beauty a thirty-footer. She had a trunk cabin over three-quarters of her, and an open cockpit aft. We had her fitted up in pretty good shape, too.
"Yes, sir, it were all that; and when it was alive it must have been fifty foot at least." "Why, Dick?" "Cause they stretches out so, sir, just like worms in the garden at home do." "Gammon, Dick. Serpents don't stretch." "Don't stretch, sir! Just you wait till you get a thirty-footer twissen and twining round you, and see if they don't stretch."
She was a thirty-footer, without a deck, ketch-rigged. Shelley's health was good, and this June, passed in bathing, sailing, reading, and hearing Jane sing simple melodies to her guitar in the moonlight, was a gleam of happiness before the end.
I remember, once, taking out on her trial trip a little thirty-footer I had just bought. In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper southwester and one rip-snorting southeaster. The slight intervals between these blows were dead calms. Also, in the six days, we were aground three times.
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