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Updated: June 23, 2025
But the Bluenoses more than held their own, all round, in any company and on any sea. So it is well worth our while to end this story of a thousand years from the Vikings till to-day by going aboard a Bluenose vessel with a Bluenose crew when both were at their prime. The Victoria is manned by the husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers of the place where she was built.
The next time you tell stories about Yankee peddlers, put the wooden clock in with the wooden punkin seeds, and hickory hams, will you? The Bluenoses, Squire, are all like Zeb Allen; they think they know everything, but they get gulled from year's eend to year's eend. They expect too much from others, and do too little for themselves.
Discipline was stern; and rightly so. A green hand was allowed one show of funk; but that was all. However, there was very little funking so long as Britishers, Bluenoses, and Yankees could pick their crews from among the most adventurous of their own populations.
I guess the Bluenose knows jist about as much about politics as this foolish fish knows about flyin'. All the critters in natur' are better in their own element. "It beats cock-fightin', I tell you, to hear the Bluenoses, when they get together, talk politics.
Bluenose discipline was good, very good indeed. When the whole ship's company was Bluenose discipline was partly instinctive and mostly went well, as it generally did when Yankees and Bluenoses sailed together. The whole population of the little home port men, women, and children knew every vessel's crew and all about them.
I see how it is, the Bluenoses can't cipher. The cat's out of the bag now; it's no wonder they don't go ahead, for they don't know nothin'; the 'Schoolmaster is abroad, with the devil to it, for he has no home at all. Why, Squire, you might jist as well expect a horse to go right off in gear, before he is halter broke, as a Bluenose to get on in the world, when he has got no schoolin'.
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