. The Viking blood; a story of seafaring. s down to the harborto look at a schooner in which he proposed buying an in-terest. Father alreadv owns a half .share in her and 216 THE VIKING BLOOD hes willing to fit her out for salt Bank fishing if Ill takeher and get a gang together. I can place you in her ascook, Joak, and Ill take you along, Donald, and make afisherman out of you. There she lies! The West Wind isher name and shes about the same build and tonnage asthe Helen Starbuck. They tumbled into a dory and pulled out to a schoonerlying to an anchor among the fleet. Into cabin, hold andfore
. The Viking blood; a story of seafaring. s down to the harborto look at a schooner in which he proposed buying an in-terest. Father alreadv owns a half .share in her and 216 THE VIKING BLOOD hes willing to fit her out for salt Bank fishing if Ill takeher and get a gang together. I can place you in her ascook, Joak, and Ill take you along, Donald, and make afisherman out of you. There she lies! The West Wind isher name and shes about the same build and tonnage asthe Helen Starbuck. They tumbled into a dory and pulled out to a schoonerlying to an anchor among the fleet. Into cabin, hold andforecastle they went, and after a careful examination,Captain Nickerson expressed himself as satisfied. Thisis a fine little vessel, boys, he remarked. Give her abit of an overhaul and shell be a better vessel than theHelen Starbuck. Ill take her over, and well get to workright away, boys, and fix her up for the spring dye say? Are ye both game to try your hand atthe fishin with me? Donald and Joak answered together, We are, sir!. WITHIN a day or two of his arrival in EastvilleHarbor, Donald saw the beginnings of great activ-ity among the anchored fleet of fishing schooners inthe Bay. Almost simultaneous with the commencement ofthe West Winds overhauling, every vessel in the fleet wastenanted by sail-benders and riggers, painters and caulkers,and the water front rapidly took on a lively appearancewith the hauling of schooners to the wharves to receivesupplies, fresh water, salt and gear. Fishermen werestreaming in from outlying villages and back-country farms—emerging like the bears and squirrels from a wintershibernation—to sign up with the skippers for the springfishing voyage. Eastville became a hive of industry and thestreet corners and stores were fishermens parliamentswhere the costs of salt, trawl lines, hooks, oil-clothes andsea-boots were discussed and the price per quintal of theseasons fish was forecasted. Donald did not see a great deal of the Nickerson
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