The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

mortal advantage in the increased sur
face exposed to its force. job per-
ceived the imrninence of disaster He
concentrated his strength in his right
arm and forced the bow back into
the winds eye. His muscles were
sore Of the strain put upon them; and
he was now bleeding at the nose. But
the momentary gain steadied him. He
exerted his strength intelligently. He
pulled with craft, taking advantage of
every lulu to creep up. Thus he drew
away from the breakers.
Now for it, lass" Job cried Thus
the first STRINGS OF the joy Of con-
/ flict expressed themselves.
The escape was into new peril. The
! gale had trailed wet dusk over the har-
Dor and the sea between. The tickle,
i through which the feet had now fled
! to the sanctuary of the harbor basin.
was marked by its breakers. II was
! but a splash of white in vague dis
! lance. The sea was a gray tossing
waste with shadowy limits The sur
ges in the northeast communicated
! their restlessness to its depths The
shallow surface waves took contrary
| direction with the madCap- Wind--eX
cited themselves TO bewilderment, 70
\ irrational force and volume. Thus the
attack was delivered upon flank and
| fropt simultaneously. The punt was
! laden with the catch. Did she COM
plain Of the load? She called it bal
! last There's a brave heart for yOul
! She rammed the black. spume-crested
waves each in its turn, as they rose
| to strike. They came in infinite num-
! beTs, rank upon the heels of rank. the
! plumes of the pressing host stretching
( far into the immessurabIe expanse
| Let the creaking of her old timbers be
( likened to eager witness In that spirit
! she attacked InterminabIy the waters
rose TO engulf her. She sprang at
! them, faltering only TO gather force:
she struck them fair: she shattered
them into spray; she shook herself
( free Of the clogging fragments and
/ plunged on with such grit and strength
1 as swells the heart to see.
! The folk Of Ragged Harbor-the 200
/ soufs-were gathered on Lookout Head
/ TO watch Job Luff beat in as they had
gathered many times before They
were standing full I'm the wind on a
/ slope Of rock high above the sea. Jobs
/ wife was there with her brood hang
( ing to her fluttering skirts The rain
! had ceased. The air was washed
I clean. The sea was suffused with gray
light. The punt was clear to the patch
on her sail.
/ Why doan't he heave his catch
over?" cried Jim Rideout
She'll swamp when he fetches
/ about" said Eleazar Manuel.
Il mind me he've weathered warse
/ gales. Eleazar Manuel" said Job Luff's
wife.
She'll swamp like a fash. woman. -
! Job stood off 10 the south. The new
/ tack was cleverly taken. The punt was
now almost broadside 10 the rock.
What's he to-"
"Runnin' for Boot Cove. by"
'He've lost hisself The Top do be too
heavy t. land"
DO he be heavin' mis- fish over. Flea
zar?' This was Sammy Arnold who
was near blind of old age.
He be's comm about"
/ It's a clever hand with q punt. Z"
said Jim RideOut. He bes comm in
on this tack
DO he be heavin' his FISH over,
by" Sammy Arnold demanded.
-'Noa, by Not Job Luh!"
The punt came tearing in through a
head-sea, Keeling. plunging. Job .eld
her no to it with that rag Of sail.
DO he be shippin water. Eleazar? 30
Again Sammy Arnold.
He do be bailin' now"
Have he his sheet fast. by? 1 do
be blind this day"
''Iss. sure; it's tied to dis foot"
JON managed the shee1 with his foot.
He worked the steering oar with his
right hand and bailed with the otner.
tbs stiff punt, said Sammy Ar
Its that"
TIE punt was coming to her own
Ragged Harbor watched her keenly as
she reeled through that bead-sea In
! = Of f,es.
SO much had been said before
'Tis gran punt" said Eleazar
Manuel
Dor"
There was no one TO gainsay it. In
the end the ill-fayored craft had found
honor.
job was. under the Head The tickle
stretched from before him to the calm
4 OF the harbor basin. The punts fight
was won. 1t was for the man to sweep
through 80 placid water but not
/ through placid water-through noise
and tumultuous waves. a narrow place
where the breakers reach from the
rocks on either side like claws. 1t was
for him 10 sweep through TO placid wa
ter; then he must pull to the stage and
land the fish. The sure path was the
<
evitabe wreck 4 the breakers so much
as laid q finger on the boat. II was
but sport for q sure hand and an
eye alert. So be t; the hand must
be continuously sue and the eye
alert always. In response TO the
oar the punt veered and sped like an
arrow for the middle. job ran his cyc
over tho catch. Then. madiy cxu.tsnt. III
looked NJ 10 the people on the rcrk lie
had won. II was "A triumph for courage
and the pint. But In that vaunting glance
1 hc BETRAYED the pDnt. y putt 81 wind
caught the rag OF q sail; elsewhere q
breath to be disresaried: here and now
with an iinwatchful~hand on the sheet a
ltranscendent peril. Jobs eyes Ncre ON tho
people. Every faculty was submerged IL
his eXlIltati0n.
Two things followed. for one. she hand
ga tsf orr was lax: iaofeover his percep-
tor of tho situation OF the pEat-thc i'm
laeSia{c torf0at Jon. q zli1a r1aXcs anu the
= sTheitt tsf TIE bfeaIefSss tSfs Tor the in.