half a dozen more ropes and danced over the deck like an at ebb tide one eye on tom ver good ver good done said after supper i show you a little i make with all her ropes so we shall learn class fer � a passenger said dan he s jest allowed you be your salt maybe tore you re s a heap fer i learn you more our next watch together taller peering through the fog as it smoked over the bows there was nothing to be seen ten feet beyond the boom while alongside rolled the endless procession of solemn pale waves whispering and one to the other now i learn you something long jack can t shouted tom as from a by the stern he produced a battered deep sea lead at one end the hollow captains courageous from a full of mutton and went forward i learn you how to fly the blue pigeon did something to the wheel that checked the s way while with to help and a proud boy was let down the in a lump on the boom the lead sung a deep song as tom whirled it round and round go ahead man said long jack impatiently we re not twenty five off fire island in a fog there s no trick to ut don t be jealous the released lead into the sea far ahead as the slowly forward is a trick though said dan when your lead s all the eye you re like to for a week what d you make it s face relaxed his skill and honor were involved in the march he had stolen on the rest of the fleet and he had his reputation as a master artist who knew the banks sixty � ef i m any judge he replied with a glance at the tiny compass in the window of the house captains courageous sixty sung out tom in great wet the gathered way once more said after a quarter of an hour what d you make it dan whispered and he looked at proudly but was too proud of his own performances to be impressed just then fifty said the father i we re right over th nick o green bank on old sixty fifty fifty roared tom they could scarcely see him through the fog she s bust within a yard � like the shells at fort bait up said dan for a line on the the seemed to be through the her wildly the men waited and looked at the boys who began fishing dan s lines on the and rail now in thunder did know help us here it s a big un too they hauled together and landed a captains courageous eyed twenty pound he had taken the bait right into his stomach why he s all covered with little cried turning him over by the great hook block they re already said long jack ye your spare eyes under the splash went the anchor and they all heaved over the lines each man taking his own place at the are they good to eat panted as he in another covered sure when they re it s a sign they ve all been together by the thousand and when they take the bait that way they ve hungry never mind how the bait sets they bite on the bare hook say this is great cried as the fish came in gasping and � nearly all as dan had said why can t we always fish from the boat instead of from the can till we begin to dress the heads and u d scare the fish to boat ain t reckoned though unless ye know as much as knows guess we run captains courageous to night harder on the hack this than the ain t it it was rather back breaking work for in a the weight of a is water borne till the last minute and you are so to speak abreast of him but the few feet of a s make so much extra dead and stooping over the the stomach but it was wild and furious sport so long as it lasted and a big pile lay aboard when the fish ceased biting where s and uncle asked the off his and up the line in careful imitation of the others s coffee and see under the yellow glare of the lamp on the post the table down and opened utterly unconscious of fish or weather sat the two men a board between them uncle at s every move what s the matter said the former as one hand in the leather at the head of the ladder hung shouting to the cook big fish and � heaps and heaps captains courageous replied quoting long jack how s the game little s jaw dropped t were n t none o his fault snapped uncle s were n t it said dan as staggered aft with the steaming coffee in a tin that lets us out o up to night s a jest man they have to do it an two young i know bait up a tub or so o while they re clean in said the wheel to his taste um guess i d clean up don t doubt it ye t though dress dress pitch while you two bait up why in thunder did n t them blame boys tell us you d struck on said uncle shuffling to his place at the table this knife s blunt dan ef out cable don t wake ye guess you d better hire a boy o your own said dan about in the dusk over the full of line lashed to of the house oh don t ye want to slip down an s bait loo captains courageous bait we are said i will pay better things go that meant the boys would 