Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 321
strandsmay be used for this, and it will always appear tohave double the num-ber it really has. Tomake it look even andsmooth, you must al-ways bend the strandsdown in the same way ;that is, always bendthem to the right or always to the left. Girls willfind this pretty cord convenient for many… … The things he really cared forWere queer things such as these :Odd knots of rope, and bits of string,A marline-spike, a hammock ring,India ink, or anythingThat might a sailor please. He liked to read of voyages, And navigators lore. And I can tell you how, he said, To make a splice or a Turks head,…
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