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August rode down to the Store with the Consul, made a few purchases consisting of tobacco, coffee and cakes for his shepherds, went down to see how the two lads were getting along with their cleaning up of the seine-boat, and at length made his way up to his mountain pasturage, choosing a short cut by way of the church.

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The seine-boat pushes off and the lord sits there gripping a pair of those colossal oars and using them like any able hand.

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The seine-master, feeling that the school of mackerel had been inclosed, turned the seine-boat towards the dory and, under the powerful arms of the fishermen, the circle was soon completed.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Then, as the sailing vessel lurched upon them, the boy noted that the seine-master and the fisherman at the stern of the seine-boat leaped for the martingale shrouds and held them.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Roote, the only one left in the seine-boat, had been the last to see the oncoming ship.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

He took half a dozen quick steps to the stern and leaped over the quarter, judging the distance so accurately that he landed fair on the foremost thwart of the seine-boat as she dropped astern, a couple of the men catching him as he jumped.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The _Shiner_ sped out to sea, cleaving the water at thirteen knots an hour easily, although her thirty-six-foot seine-boat was towing after her.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The seine-boat was dropping astern as fast as one of the crew, who remained on deck, could pay out the painter, but the seine-master gave no heed to the rapid departure of the boat.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The words were scarcely spoken, when four of the men had the dory over the starboard rail, while eight of the men tailed on to the painter of the seine-boat and brought it to the port fore-rigging.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

As he set a hand upon the spokes and spun them round, a tall gray ship towered above them from the side on which was the seine-boat, and seemed to hang poised a moment on the crest of a sea before the final crash.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918