The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes (1912)
Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 22
all this: shehad thought that only a housekeeper could keep up such a polish. Another time Captain Hawes took the children to Barrys sail loft, where thesails for the new ship were being made. He had already told them somethingabout sailmaking, but knew they would understand better by seeing the… … with the stout leather palms, instead of thimbles. And all their neat tools, theheavers, stickers, fids, grummet stamps,and such odd-named things. On the wall in one corner of the loft was a varied collection of bright clewirons and rings, thimbles and cringles, which aroused the…
Sailing · Seashore
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