StNicholas [serial] . FOWL THREE YEARS BEHIND THE GUNS THE TRUE CHRONICLES OF A DIDDY-BOX BY L. G. T. Chapter XV ON THE DEEP ADAMASTOR A BURIAL AT SEA IN A DRIFTWOOD FIRE The life of a seaman is not lived entirely in cruising out on the broad ocean we steerclear from the tracks laid for the mail-ships,. choosing a pathless waste where there is uninter-rupted target range. I should like to write ofthirty-seven days out of sight of land, just cruis-ing, and drilling as a long cruise, but when I hearsailormen telling tales of more than a year afloaton an old wind-jammer I am
StNicholas [serial] . FOWL THREE YEARS BEHIND THE GUNS THE TRUE CHRONICLES OF A DIDDY-BOX BY L. G. T. Chapter XV ON THE DEEP ADAMASTOR A BURIAL AT SEA IN A DRIFTWOOD FIRE The life of a seaman is not lived entirely in cruising out on the broad ocean we steerclear from the tracks laid for the mail-ships,. choosing a pathless waste where there is uninter-rupted target range. I should like to write ofthirty-seven days out of sight of land, just cruis-ing, and drilling as a long cruise, but when I hearsailormen telling tales of more than a year afloaton an old wind-jammer I am ashamed to mentionit, although I cannot leave off wondering whereall the blue comes from. Has the ocean drunkfrom the heavens until they have grown pale, or isthe sky merely a mirror of the oceans sapphire? In the calmest of weather there are alwaysgreat blue swells far out at sea, so blue, so freefrom whitecaps that one requires but slightimagination, by looking through half-closed lids,to see great rolling meadows of gentians. This iswhere all the pretty little formalities of port lifeare laid aside—the moment the anchor is on deck,the ships flag and the union jack are folded away,and their staffs taken down, while simultaneouslywith their lowering an ensign mounts to the gaffand the admirals flag shrinks on the
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