"Oh, the 'Liza Jane and the Maria Louise Sailed a race one day for a peck of peas. You'd hardly believe the way them two Carried sail that day--they fairly flew.
People ashore they said, 'Gee whiz! The 'Liza Jane the fastest is.'"
We could hear him scrambling, still humming, over the barrels on deck. He halted long enough by the rail to say, "How is it, boys?" to the watch on deck, and then swung himself up the rigging. Once aloft he had his work cut out, with hours of strain on brain and nerve. But Clancy never minded--he never minded anything so far as we could make out.
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DRESSING DOWN
That night was the worst I ever put in towing astern of a vessel. "Owling" is the seiners' word for that kind of work. It was "owling" sure enough, with the seine-boat on a short painter and the
