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And now, my brave boys, comes the best of the fun,

It's hands about ship and reef topsails in one;

So it's lay aloft, topoes down,

And clen your topsails as the oes round

--La Pique

At the end of that week the Ethel and May had delivered at market her

first fare of fish and her captains had divided her first shares Mayo

decided that the results were but of proportion to the eneration of the tribe of Hue and Cry In their

case it had been the right touch at the right tiry for a chance to ratitude inspired

them and an almost insane desire to show that they were not worthless

drove they of

independence was getting in its work

The people of Hue and Cry for three generations had been ht their fish or clams to the

mainland the buyers were both unjust and conte children who ift

for their product instead of a real man's price Prices suited the

fish-buyers' moods of the day The islanders had never been adht business like other fishermen They had always