. Our young folks [serial]. ead, nor be ordered about by Jack in any way. Now to jibe isto change the position of a sail, so that, if the wind has been blowing againstthe right-hand side of it, the left-hand side shall be brought round for thewind to blow upon. So, if the sail has been drawing on the left, or larboard,or port side of the boat, the wind, striking its opposite face, will carry itacross the boat, to the right or starboard side. The bottom of the sail isfastened to a heavy pole called the boom, and the boom is of course carriedover with the sail. As this boom hangs at about the he
. Our young folks [serial]. ead, nor be ordered about by Jack in any way. Now to jibe isto change the position of a sail, so that, if the wind has been blowing againstthe right-hand side of it, the left-hand side shall be brought round for thewind to blow upon. So, if the sail has been drawing on the left, or larboard,or port side of the boat, the wind, striking its opposite face, will carry itacross the boat, to the right or starboard side. The bottom of the sail isfastened to a heavy pole called the boom, and the boom is of course carriedover with the sail. As this boom hangs at about the height of the shoulderof a boy sitting in the boat, you can see at once why Jack told Paul to duckhis head. Paul was sitting with his back to the sail, and did not see it com-ing over, so he sat up straighter than ever ; and the boom, striking him onthe back of the neck, tumbled him heels over head into the bottom of theboat, where he lay for a moment in the midst of two or three fish and someslimy water, not yet cleared It was so evident where the fault lay, that as he scrambled up, not muchhurt, he could not blame any one but himself, and so sat down again, onlysaying : I wont have such an ugly great stick as that in my boat. I m go-ing to have a boat next summer, a great deal nicer than this nasty thing;and Ill have all the sails hung up on the mast, like that ship over there,— pointing to a brig standing up the bay before the wind. All the long-shore children shouted so at the idea of a square-rigged skiff,that Paul felt completely disconcerted, and concluded to go forward, out ofthe way of that ugly great stick. 5 8 Inland and Shoreland. [January, If you go forward, you must tend jib, and send Nathan aft, said Jack;there is nt room for both of you. What tending jib was, Paul did nt in the least understand, but he tookNathans seat in front of the mast, saying Very well as he did so. Jackheld the boat on the same course till they reached the bar, when he thoughtit bett
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