Off the rocks; stories of the deep-sea fisherfolk of Labrador . ngmore crowded, evidently with peoplecoming up from the cabin. Theres thirty or forty of them if theres aman. Doctor! Joe shouted above the storm. Iguesstheyre going to try ithe boats if it. comesto the worst. -They-might;^as .well go down inthe-vesseL -Theydnever, ptill to windward inthis wind. : / -• MeariAyhile the schooner was getting nearerto us, though as the wind blew then she wouldpass at least fifty yards to the southard of grew a little lighter as we watched. Theschooner was riding to the full scope of herchaiii, a
Off the rocks; stories of the deep-sea fisherfolk of Labrador . ngmore crowded, evidently with peoplecoming up from the cabin. Theres thirty or forty of them if theres aman. Doctor! Joe shouted above the storm. Iguesstheyre going to try ithe boats if it. comesto the worst. -They-might;^as .well go down inthe-vesseL -Theydnever, ptill to windward inthis wind. : / -• MeariAyhile the schooner was getting nearerto us, though as the wind blew then she wouldpass at least fifty yards to the southard of grew a little lighter as we watched. Theschooner was riding to the full scope of herchaiii, and seemed, like some live thing, to beinakihg a desperate effort to save herself andthe human souls she was responsible for. As thelarger jswells • came, along, she, would plungeafmost?,bbw under, arid .then rise and shake her-self, as if to free herself of her enemy more com-pletely before he struck her again. Casks andbarrels and heterogeneous lumber of every sorthad all been thrown overboard to free the decks,and were even now being pounded to atoms on. oo z < o Off the Rocks the relentless rocks astern. It seemed only amatter of time before all on the devoted littleschooner would share the same fate. Joe, thats the little schooner that lay nearus last night ? I asked at last. Im sure thatsher stem. Its the Firefly, as I live, Doctor. If thewind canted ever so little, we might pass thema line, he said, hoarsely. We can only fail atworst. Ill be glad to make one in the boat totry. Youll do nothing with the life-boat, much too heavy. It must be the jolly-boator nothing. There was no time to be lost. Volunteers wereplentiful for the four places in the boat. Whoever knew a deep-sea fisherman to hang backwhen life was to be saved? Fear? Yes, manyhave to go down before the oceans might, butfear? They dont know what it means. The boat was manned as much as possible un-der the shelter of our own hull, and a long, fineline coiled in the stem, to which we attached thee
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