. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . ing round again forthe other side, down by which is steaming the stately lona,known to people all over the world, her black smoke driftingaway to leeward as hard as it rises from the funnel. Tack andtack, we cross and recross, in by the Skate Island on the oneside, then back to Tarbert Loch on the other, sometimes gettinga favouring start of westerly wind from the hills when holdingoff on port, sometimes meeting a heading squall fl
. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . ing round again forthe other side, down by which is steaming the stately lona,known to people all over the world, her black smoke driftingaway to leeward as hard as it rises from the funnel. Tack andtack, we cross and recross, in by the Skate Island on the oneside, then back to Tarbert Loch on the other, sometimes gettinga favouring start of westerly wind from the hills when holdingoff on port, sometimes meeting a heading squall flying northwith the shower as we come off on starboard. From heather-clad shore to heather-clad shore our beat is hard and long, andthe men, whose beards are white with salt from the spray dryingon them in the glimpses of sunshine, are tired with the wearyworking at the head sheets. At last we fetch up Loch Gilp forhome in the wake of the schooner, which allows us some time. Allnear we have beat we know, but have we beat the flying Selene ?Flying along with a free slant, which comes across from CrinanBay, we cross the buoys of Commodore Lord Glasgows Valetta,. Under the Crown and Anchor. 19 and—hurrah ! we get a gun. Bearing up again we luff up toknow the result. Commodore ahoy ! Whos won ? The Condor ! How much ? • By one second only ! And so it was, the Condor won by the cracking of the cap onthe gun, after one of the hardest and most exciting races thatwas ever sailed in full, let alone plain canvas; and though theVanduara won many prizes for the Condors owner afterwards,she never won nor did Captain Mackie ever sail any that wasmore hardly contested than that which was sailed from Campel-town to Ardrishaig, and was won by one second. From the first to last after the breeze came, it was a caseof-^ Wage away, rage away, blow away breeze,Stand by your halliards, sheets my boys, away, tear away, wear away, squall,Get it all in again. Sheets my boys, haul! Waste no
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