Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 92
. Buthere in this book, salt and strong and vivid, itlives for all time. On heaving decks, to the creak-ing of mast and spar and rigging, the sting of 19.] BOOKS AND READING 73 the windy spray and the slap of angry waves,you go after the mighty creature of the fiveoceans, who spouts and plunges and… … CUT IN TWO ! A WHALING INCIDENT. still harbors. Other ships are sighted and spoken.You have passed into a new world, brimful ofmad action, or lost in long hours of calm, a placeof danger and of peace, an extraordinary ming-ling of the immensities of ocean and the narrowbounds of the ship. When the…
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