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The schooner washed her nose in a curving billow that came inboard

and swept aft With her s her, she had halted and paid off, lacking steerageway She got

several wallops of the sah

to head into the wind

Again she paid off, as if trying to avoid a volleying gust, and another

wave crested itself ahead of the blunt bows and then see tons of water on deck Laths, lules

were ripped loose and went into the sea The Polly appeared to be

showing sagacity of her own in that crisis; she was jettisoning cargo

for her own salvation

"Good Cephas! this is going to lose us our decklo'd," wailed the master

"We'd better let her run!" "Don't you do it, sir! You'll never get her

about!" Mayo had given over his work on the sail and was listening

Above the screa

a dull and solemn roar to ard He suspected what that sound

indicated He had heard it before in his experience He tried to

peer into the driving storers Then nature held a torch for hi