Prairie schooner days.

The schooner-captain, leaning against the shrouds, and even Baptiste, laughed outright.

How are we going to Baltimore?" "A schooner sails to-morrow.

"I beg your pardon, Captain Parkinson," eagerly put in the paymaster, "but I've handled a schooner yacht for several years and I'd appreciate the chance of" "Very well, Mr. McGuire, you shall be the second in command.

Prairie schooner detours.

(In Prairie schooner magazine, spring 1940) © 28Mar40; B449899. Jessamyn West (A); 6Dec67; R423232. WEST, ROSCOE L. Tinny Tommy uses numbers.

Mr. Elsey proceeded in the gig with Phibbs, Humphries, Selby, and Adams, conveying the two sick men and boy belonging to the schooner crew to the Tom Tough.

Hurricane weather; how Stan Ridley met adventure on the trading schooner Wind-rider.

In the nights, the changes were greatest, often placing the schooners leagues asunder, and seemingly separating them altogether.

Before dark, Captain Spinnet was once more within hailing distance of his own vessel, and raising a trumpet to his mouth, he shouted: "Schooner ahoy!

" Amid redoubled outcries he gave the helm to Camille Brahmin, and fighting his way with his pretty feet against half-real efforts to throw him overboard, clambered forward to the mast, whence a moment later, with the help of the schooner-master's hand, he reached the deck of the larger vessel.

he added, as he saw the bows of the schooner point for the narrow passage.

" CAPE COD BALLADS THE COD-FISHER Where leap the long Atlantic swells In foam-streaked stretch of hill and dale, Where shrill the north-wind demon yells, And flings the spindrift down the gale; Where, beaten 'gainst the bending mast, The frozen raindrop clings and cleaves, With steadfast front for calm or blast His battered schooner rocks and heaves.

" It was not difficult finding plenty for the lads to do, making the neglected schooner shipshape, and adjusting the spread of canvas aloft to the new course I decided upon.

When she is only two cable's lengths off, the schooner slackens speed, and then stops at the entrance of a sort of natural canal formed by a couple of reefs that barely rise above the water.

Jenieve struck on Jean Bati' McClure's door, and faced his wife, speechless, pointing to the schooner ploughing southward.

In an hour the way was clear, and the boats towed the schooner stern foremost into the broader passage.

Good-by!"the schooner swang slowly off before the breeze"good-by!" St.-Ange roused himself.

A considerable schooner trade is carried on by the merchants of Baltimore with South America.

Besides, he had only one absorbing vice other than business, and with merely wine and song to be found at the club, Hallman went there but seldom, and only to talk about pearl-shell, copra, and the profits of schooner voyages.

"How is it, Gar'ner?" called out the Vineyard master; "shall it be shares? or does each schooner whale on her own hook?

Pausing but an instant over the master's hat to grin an acknowledgment of his beholders' speechless interest, he softly placed in it the faithfully-mourned and honestly-prayed-for Smyrna fund; then, saluted by the gesticulative, silent applause of St.-Ange and the schooner-men, he resumed his first attitude behind his roaring master.

As the schooner approaches it becomes more distinct.

"Evidently there's something criminal in her record," said Barnett, frowning at the fusty schooner astern.

The bodies of the three people on the sandbank could not be recovered, the natives returning to the attack with showers of arrows, nor could the small force on board the schooner attempt to punish the perpetrators of this unprovoked murder.)