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She watched from Rocky Head and she seen
what she knowed to be the _Bravo_ heave in sight.
"There warn't no foolin' her," pursued Cap'n Abe, whose pipe had gone
out but whose knitting needles twinkled the faster. "No. She knowed
the schooner far's she could glim her. She watched the Bravo caught in
the cross-current when the gale dropped sudden, and tryin' to claw off
shore.
"But no use! She was doomed! There warn't no help for the schooner.
She went right on to Toll o' Death Reef and busted up in an hour. Not
a body ever was beached, for the current, tide, _an_' gale was all off
shore. And it happened in plain sight of our windows.
"Two months later," Cap'n Abe said reflectively, "I come into the
world. Objectin', of course, like all babies. Funny thing that. We
all come into it makin' all kinds of a hullabaloo against anchorin'
here; and we most of us kick just as hard against slippin' our moorin's
to get out of it.
"Land sakes!" he exclaimed in conclusion. "There ye be. I guess my
mother hated the sea 'bout as much as any longshore woman ever did.


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