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IV. The First Half

seams⁠—” He threw out his hands with an indescribable gesture, while Penn sat down on the house and sobbed at the sheer horror and pity of it all. Harvey could not realize that he had seen death on the open waters, but he felt very sick. Then Dan went up the crosstrees, and Disko steered them back to within sight of their own trawl-buoys just before the fog blanketed the sea once again.

“We go mighty quick hereabouts when we do go,” was all he said to Harvey. “You think on that fer a spell, young feller. That was liquor.”

“After dinner it was calm enough to fish from the decks⁠—Penn and Uncle Salters were very zealous this time⁠—and the catch was large and large fish.

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