The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-04-18
= m THE BANKS AND BACK
ills of the Georges in March.

os Rank! FiShermen'S wives
oIEte oir voices when they speak of
T ', 6Esibermen's children learn to
"a i long before they know exactly
~ eve oven where it is. 1t has a
o. one hundred and seventy men
"a % rle blow, a hundred and sixty
'll' g9nother. Fourteen vessels in a
ID %,,"'ght-gone down with all on
Z u" When they go down on Georges
u ..ays with all on board. Seventy
al"c "5me out of that night. How
~ bi,dren does that mean clinging
, skirts when the news was
A me-. This is one highland the
~ Georges have had many
: Tbe finest seamen in the world
and the stancheSt small craft
a. ''0 Them. and yet this is the way
a a fmthe Judgment day, when the
rg MD and men arise and stand
" I've ord, look for mighty host
georges,
4s Bank in winter suggests
y je,d and battered hulls. 1t was
..SF winter, but on a day toward
. al end OF it, at high noon ON a
@ friday, that the Horace B.
" fmr type of the Gloucester
rs5n set sail from her home port
'''.r-mptery of able seamen.
pen arh- east" repeated the first
~. cake the wheel from the skip
east 5 uth-east it was till the
'.opl hundred and thirty-five
uUDr scuppers she layed and
a-4- nine ten knots - till
,...ysr If the north shoal on the
M 8WEes Bank.
u..1 0~hing on Georges is found
-a., that bound its westerly
n 4, ou these shoals that so
.s.oyum are lost. Vessels are
4. q.f. These shoals to leeward and
u rt In places here there are
t.. 8raolus of water. That gives
... low i'll a gale. There is
..a ater to batter her hull to
FL beach, to smother the
...U hatters them, too. Give
..u rl let the wind blow and
u pit is a storm indeed
..... oucester fisherman fails
.ue. But here he has no
r I4rker was heading south
..N ute fishing spot, the wind
-.a ui hauling and the glass
.l thirty fathoms of water
..u..'a he in during the easterly
.. -.. was worked off the bank.
lMty to the Gulf Stream by
a sine was driven back, then
again, to be handy when
.5 -houId moderate.
H .,t moderate that day OF the
Utal it blew harder, so her
l- taken in altogether, her
.. H. and under foresail and
Size oa. hoye-to. For two days
nights she hung on so. 1t
.l. sOW to mind much, except
.-9rd fishing, and as this was
.O nh, market was good.
fri. HWed away below while the
5--u. down in the bunk taking
-mL gave you only a smothered
-o.o ot what it was outside. OF
,.it vas nearer the real thing than
I'd ap-e buried in an inside state
l. 4lI ocean liner. By smuggling
.Hri banking you could get your
l4e r1 within three inches of the
0lg stl beneath her and early catch
rmomtory heave of every sea. In
uee fire side Of the vessel would
away from you so that you would
ps3 to the locker side of your
/. size would 60 up, up. up, and
g-o IeeWard. She would poise there
Gaat waiting, shivering with fear
'-l t.e SEA itself would come. You
.tar the roaring of it for some
-um before it struck. Then over
esd uu deck would be rumbline
,ug Founding and humping the
r rgA and width of her. A bar
# It would dart under the edge OF
TAonway and come down the
-b.. Tue little vessel would resist,
-l lit to hold back. You could
-Hr .r nerves tightening with the
HHH -Ialn, but after it she would
Np. She was only sixty tons-re
l 0ttle thing. She would be
E ""l away and away, and the1
.rI' ome rushing back. 1t was
.H I- Ike a draw shot, with the
" enc ball The crowded waters
W 7boulder would gurgle and
HH .Hd act as if they would like tC
H brutal forces were choking
.." these seas from the decl
ID alse you to wonder how the
.Fri She is so little, and these
0sH look twenty feet high. Posi-
He, are not twenty feet high
''u are paid to look into these
e har4 declared that storm wave!
arly as high as they look
'e But they look it, and are
rD1-L Climb a little way into
--n- IS high as you care to go OF
Gag Wt you cannot look beyond
5'-s nt the big ones. They traveI
receptive speed; you get ready tC
g 'ne and it catches you before you
started to move; it picks you W
We you have drawn the bracine
..- ald slams you up against thu
.@l ing, which is the foot of the
1I94s- now. Next time it lays yor
y. lie curry kids. And only it,
VT Tile edge has caught you. Ha(
you lairly there would have beer
' moist dory over-with the
..r' against you. 1t really broke tt
."t.d Of the vessel, but only its
.'T9 collar came aboard, but thai
'.l siyeS you a feeling that yoI
'- 'o"ii Us much as pine shaving
ID PINE shaving in cold salt waite
y "pIh much.
'd> come racing on by way OF
W aHl run from clear forward tt
d al- some come broadside on
'A awful slap tlat-handed an(
i.Ho.e on, straining the flashing!
~ 'onts iii the waist, and heeline
'7 .ii her lee rail goes well under
N'i'. ~ them seem to break owe.
.I'tC These fill the gangway be