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We ate al fresco, as true buccaneers of the rew better

and better acquainted It occurred to me that mayhap the nautical

education of my associates was, after all, so soave them, by means of the Sea Rover's bowline, some

lessons in sailorht, the

sheet-bend, the clinch-knot, the jam-knot, the fisherman's water-knot,

the stevedore's slip-knot, the dock-hand's round-turns and

half-hitches for cable nus-hitch, the fool's-knot,

the cat's-cradle, the sheep-shank, the dog-shank, and many others--all

of which I had learned in books and in practise--I did for theain; just as I could have done for the the diamond-hitch in a pack-train, or the

stirrup-hitch in a cow camp, or many other of the devices oflate in life in these things, I had

studied them hard and faithfully

I could see--and I noted it with

in the estimation of my pirates It pleased me not at all to show that

I knew s, for I was older andmyself

accepted as one fit to associate with them Once or twice, I saw the