CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK::::::::::::::::::::1905

Copyright, 1905, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Published, September, 1905
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

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[The Sail-Carriers][1]
[The Wicked “Celestine”][41]
[The Truth of the Oliver Cromwell][71]
[Strategy and Seamanship][133]
[Dory-Mates][159]
[The Salving of the Bark Fuller][199]
[On Georges Shoals][243]
[Patsie Oddie’s Black Night][273]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[“’Tis Tommie I’m after,” hollers back the Skipper][Frontispiece]
FACING
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[“All the looseness in my oil-pants is ketched tight”][26]
[What’s that a-drivin’ in from sea, like a ghost from out the dawn?][32]
[Stood by and took them as they came down][64]
[A tug bore down and hailed them][68]
[He was having another mug-up for himself][114]
[The Lucy was acting like a vessel trying to coax the other][152]
[“You just try it—just let me see you try it, Sam Leary”][234]