Ralph Henry Barbour

Name: For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

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“For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1”, published in 1918, is a work by Ralph Henry Barbour. It explores elements such as Pickles, Nelson and Troy.

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ THE three-masted schooner Jonas Clinton was loafing along in a six-knot breeze some five hundred miles off the coast of France. For the time of year, the middle of October, the Atlantic in those latitudes was unusually docile and there was scarcely enough swell to slant the schooner's deck. Overhead, a moon in its first quarter was playing hide-and-seek in a bank of purple-black clouds. The night—the ship's clock in the cabin had just struck five bells—was so mild that the helmsman had not yet troubled to button his heavy reefer. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ Nelson shared his father's cabin, and twenty minutes later he was sound asleep there, while Pickles, half under the bunk and half out, twitched his legs and made little sounds, dreaming, perhaps, that he was doing battle royal with some long-whiskered, squeaking denizen of the hold.
Seven bells had struck some time ago, when Nelson was midway between sleeping and waking, and now it was close on midnight. From across the passage came the deep snores of Mr. Cupples. The mate was a vigorous, hearty man even when he slumbered. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ No one could make two trips over and back with Captain Troy, watching his handling of his ship, his behavior in moments of peril and his attitude toward the men under him, without feeling admiration and respect for the simple-minded, big-hearted, cool-thinking man. The fact that Nelson's mother had died when he was eight years of age had focused all his affection on his father, and, since Nelson was an only child, had, on the other hand, concentrated all the captain's love on him. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ Captain Troy, keeping the first watch, came along the deck from the stern, a tall, rather gaunt figure in the dun light, and paused where Nelson and Pickles sat. The captain was well on toward fifty and had followed the sea, boy and man, for more than thirty years, just as his father and his father's father before him had followed it. Several generations of Troys had been born within sight and sound of Casco Bay and had taken to the sea as naturally and inevitably as ducks take to water. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ Pickles was—well, Pickles was just Pickles. First of all, he was a dog. Beyond that I hesitate to go. Leo, the big, two-fisted Swede who had sailed with Captain Troy for seven years, declared that "he ban part wolf-dog an' part big fool." But that was scarcely fair to Pickles, because, no matter how mixed he was in the matter of breed, he was certainly no fool. Even Terry, the cook, acknowledged that. No dog capable of stealing a piece of mutton as big as his head from right under the cook's nose can rightly be called a fool. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ There's more men have talked themselves out of their jobs than you can shake a stick at. Just you remember that, son, and every time you're tempted to say something when you ain't got anything to say, you just clap the hatch on. And then," he added, "sit on it, just as you're doing now!" The captain craned his head a little for a look at the dim spread of the jib. "I'll feel a sight easier," he muttered, "when we're five hundred miles further west."
"You aren't afraid of U-boats, are you, dad?" asked Nelson, smiling as he pulled at the dog's ears. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ But at last a brisk breeze had started the Jonas Clinton on her homeward voyage only to peter out at the end of the second day, leaving the skipper, who, as half owner in the ship, was deeply concerned in her fortunes, decidedly glum. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, For the Freedom of the Seas — Chapter 1 (1918)

“ It's maddening to think of all the cargoes awaiting bottoms back home, and us wallowing along at five or six knots; and in ballast, at that!"
"Mustn't be greedy, dad," answered the boy, smiling up in the dark. "We made a pile of money this trip, didn't we?"
"Money? ”

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