This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...was that indescribable glimmer in his gray eyes betraying a sense of humor. If indications pointed to a "spell of weather," Captain Billy habitually retired to his cabin, leaving orders with the mate to "call me if it breezes up," and when the first puff" of a squall bellied the sails of the Lizzie MacDonald--named ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...was that indescribable glimmer in his gray eyes betraying a sense of humor. If indications pointed to a "spell of weather," Captain Billy habitually retired to his cabin, leaving orders with the mate to "call me if it breezes up," and when the first puff" of a squall bellied the sails of the Lizzie MacDonald--named after his daughter, and second only to her in his affections--heeling the bark in to her lee scuppers, Captain Billy would hastily leave his game of solitaire and bound on deck. One glance at the heavens sufficed for his decision. With him decision and action were synonymous; and when be bellowed the order, "All hands shorten sail," every man-Jack jumped to the ratlines, for "Solitaire" Bill, as the captain was known to seafaring men from Glasgow to the Horn, was an Absolute Monarch when at sea. r For twenty years the bark Lizzie MacDonald had freighted hither and yon about the Atlantic, and was one of the few of her type which had managed to stay in the running against modern steam tramp competition. She lay in the roads at Kingston, Jamaica, having discharged a cargo of dry fish from Boston, and was all ready to clear for Liverpool with sugar and molasses. War conditions had boosted freight rates, and the Lizzie had been paying her owners as never before. It was 102 degrees in the shade, and at ten o'clock in the forenoon "Solitaire Bill" sat in his cabin at a rickety table apparently oblivious to everything except the inevitable solitaire. It was not generally known that the captain could more clearly map out a course or think of foreign subjects to better advantage when thus engaged than at any other time, and when the Yankee mate came aboard in a bum-boat, he coughed apologetically befor...
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