Identifier: ForeststreamXXVIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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hat they lent him $75 out-right to charter the tug, as he had no cash with him, having trampedtwenty-five miles across country to connect. It was not expected that the Uoot should put in a day without theregulation gale. When Plum Point, eight miles below Herring Bay,was over the bow, with the long pier just to be seen below, the windhauled into N.W. in a series of ugly squalls which knocked the boatdown to the cabin house, and caused the sheet to be spilled incess-antly. Having kept well off shore to avoid the lee ol the bluffs, itwas now necessary to work the boat in under the land by a scries othalf boards to each puff. A biscuits toss off shore there is still 18ft.,so it was almost with nose butting into the. bank that the Coot lay toher anchor, while the sail was close reefed and a hasty lunchswallowed with the warmth of the stove to revive circulation.Schooners had come down to reefed mainsail and jib, and a largesloop close aboard had her ten men tying away reef points for dear
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life. As she drove under the Coots stern showing nothing butbobbed jib, I hailed the grizzly bearded mariner at the wheel toidentify Plum Point without fail. Whar yer bound? he casuallyadded. iNorlolk. Reckon youd better keep inshore with thatthing. All the crew dropped their points and stared at the Cootwith a broad grin. In half an hour the boat was on her courseagain, spinning away at a dashing rate, but I did not keep herunder the bluffs, as the sea was now very high beyond. PassedGovernors Run where there is said to be entrance to a small creekbut could make out nothing definite. In the afternoon the windlulled again and the boat was boldly put across a ten mile bightformed by the i-eceding shore. When off St. Leonard, the weatherhad moderated considerably and reefs were shaken out. The snnsank behind three remarkable bluffs and gulleys below St. Leonardand left the waters almost calm, the yacht drifting with barelysteerage way for two hours, slowly creeping up on Uove Point Ligh

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