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And when last evening I said, 'To-morrow, boys, we'll swing her off and drive her to the west'ard to the west'ard and Gloucester! the leaping heart in you drove the blood to your very eyes. Surely that was not in sorrow, Simon?" I made no answer. Back and forth we paced, and talked as we paced, until the stars were dimming in the sky and the darkness fading from the sea.
A coast steamer had just come to anchor in the harbor with the report that just outside about ten miles to the west'ard was a vessel, dismasted and clean-swept, and dragging toward the rocks. They could not help her themselves too rough a hurricane outside to launch a boat was out of the question. They didn't mind taking a chance, they said, but to attempt her rescue would be suicide.
"Better row round to the west'ard a little, when you get to Fishback," said he, "it's kinder choppy on this side sometimes, an' if my boat got all stove to pieces on the rocks 'fore you got ashore, why, where'd I be?" "You would be right here," said Mr. Daddles; "where do you think we'd be?" "You? Oh, huh! Yes, that's so.
"And heave the lead sure enough. And then?" "And then, if you find you're clear of the North Shoal, you put her to the s'uth'ard and west'ard till you're in onto the Bank." "S'uth'ard and west'ard that's the boy. Man, but I'll live to see you going to the Custom House and taking out your master's papers yet." "And can I join the Master Mariners then?"
It was all very well for the Cap'n, who drew his by the week. "Come, look alive!" Taffy called sharply. He pinned his faith to the barometer, and as he shut it in its case he glanced at the brigantine and saw that her crew were busy with the braces, flattening the forward canvas. "See there, boys. There'll be a gale from the west'ard before night."
It's lightnin' a little away down there to the west'ard, and durin' one o' the flashes I sartaintly did think I see some objek a-movin' away over there in the direction where the felucca came from, but when the next flash took place there weren't a sign of anything." "Oh, indeed!" said I, "what did the object look like?"
Why, young man, there hain't ben any Pequinky Crik fur th' better part o' sixty year not sence thet gret May storm druv th' bay shore right up on eend an' dammed th' crik short off, an' turned all th' medders thereabouts inter a gret nasty ma'sh, an' med a new outlet five mile an' more away t' th' west'ard.
He made sail long enough afore we did, a'ter the gale had blowed itself out, and consequently got a good long leg to the west'ard of us; but as we've been steering perhaps a couple of p'ints higher than he has for most of the time since, we've overhauled him; and now he's come round to go to the nor'ard, and we've fallen in with him once more."
"Whether it were to punish him for comin' to sea at his time of life or not I don't know; but from this on we did have the devil's own weather. Gale after gale from the west'ard, shiftin' constant from sou'west to nor'west, and tryin' constant to see from which quarter it could blow the hardest.
There were scores of poems, one in Latin and many in French. Americans seem to have been contented to quote Kipling, the "Lotus Eaters," or Omar, but Englishmen had written their own. English university men are generous poetasters. I have read their verses in inns and outhouses of many countries. Usually they season with a sprig from Horace or Vergil. "I'm goin' to the west'ard," said McTavish.
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