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below, leaving us with lots cut out for us to do. First the main lower topsail, reefing and setting the foresail and the three upper topsails. Although the main deck was like a half tide rock, we managed to ring out a ripping good chorus. Mastheading the three topsails. Big Mack singing the solo of the chanty, "The Wide Missouri." Solo: Oh Shanandoah, I love your daughter Chorus: Away you rolling river Solo: Oh, Shanandoah, I long to hear you Chorus: Ah, Ah, we are bound away to cross the wide Missouri Solo: The ship sails free a gale is blowing Chorus: Away my rolling river Solo: The braces taut, the sheets are aflowing Chorus: Ah, Ah, we are bound away to cross the wide Missouri Solo: Oh Shanadoah, I'll ne'er forget you Chorus: Away my rolling river Solo: Till the day I die I'll love you ever Chorus: Ah, ah, I am bound away to cross the wide Missouri So it runs on, and heard above the howling of the wind in the rigging, I was singing as loudly as I possi? bly could and Kelly two octaves below the rest of us and growling like a bear with a sore head Home of Solid Birch Furniture Keltic Furniture Sofas Sofa Beds Coffee & End Tables World Rockers Recliners Tables & Chairs All Your Home Furnishing Needs 1115 Kings Road, Sydney River, N.S. B1 SI C6 • 539-1715 Enormous Showroom at SYDNEY RIVER THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Today you can connect with Peru as easily as Pugwash. You can hear your cousin in Sydney, Australia as clearly as your uncle in Sydney, Cape Breton. Keeping Nova Scotia in the forefront of telecommunications technology is keeping you in touch with the world. Born in Nova Scotia, heard around the world. MT&T; YOUR QUALITY CONNECTION The weather moderated some, but hailstorms blew up every few minutes with hailstones as big as mar? bles. The wind hauled aft and we had a job squaring the yards. We had to put a handy billy on each brace. Big Mack came near going over the side. He was stand? ing on the topgallant rail putting a strap on the main brace when she shipped a big sea. He saved himself by shinnying up the brace, but we on the main deck were washed back and forth over the deck landing in the lee scupper more dead than alive. The captain keeps his van watch now, and MacVi? car, second mate, is put in the forecastle and is awfully sulky. In the first dogwatch, I was sitting on my chest in the forecastle, talking to Mack Dalrymple with my back to MacVicar and without one word he hit me. He aimed for my jaw, but I happened to tum my head and got the lick in the back of my head, driving me off the chest, and I brought up against the bulkhead on my face. I was dazed all right and did not know what happened to me. Just then Big Mack came in. I was bleeding like a stuck pig. He asked, "What was the trouble about?" I told him, "Don't talk about a wild man." He flew at MacVicar pounding him unmercifully, then kicking him out of the forecastle on deck. The mate came along. Big Mack and Dalrymple both told Mr. Densi? more, the mate, what MacVicar had done, and further that he would not be allowed in the forecastle; that he would be pitched out every time he came in. So he slept in the carpenter's shop and ate there. My, but he hated me, and I had to keep constant watch for myself. He was a big strong man, possibly the strongest man on board except Big Mack. OUR CAPTAIN IS CARRYING ON ALL SAIL, swing? ing three topgallant sails and main royal in the morn? ing watch. Through the mist we sighted a large ship outward bound tmder three lower topsails and reefed foresail, beating to windward against the wind and a heavy sea running. She passed quite close on her star? board tack, a dead muzzier for her. You bet that they looked at us foaming by, swinging out main royal. We were in the vicinity of the Horn, and got glimpses of it through the fog and mist, a tough looking place, black Ocean Jleiital84.td. Lawn & Garden Equipment Tillers Sod Cutters Air Eators GLACE BAY General Engine Hoists Jacks Tow Bars 849-1616 & Much More... South (Campbells Corner) - P. O. Box 265 I.G.Tax Services Quality Tax Preparation • Fast and courteous service • Special rates for seniors • Year round tax service 350 Charlotte Street Sydney, Nova Scotia 564-8800