Samuel Alexander White, The foaming fore shore — II. The Freighter "Auk" (1918)
“ Under Taylor's guidance the Graywing caught her stride, headsails ballooning, fore and main booms crashing across as she leaped toward the yawing Auk not three cable-lengths away. The freighter swung drunkenly to starboard. Taylor veered a point or two in his course, and as swiftly, as silently and as smoothly as a knife skirts a pot of grease he skirted her rail and barked to Brown at his elbow. ”
Samuel Alexander White, The foaming fore shore — II. The Freighter "Auk" (1918)
“ Southeastward, between him and Belle Isle Island, wrapped ghost-like in Atlantic fog, yawed the freighter Hughie Hay had sighted, not an ocean-going cargo steamer but a sixty-ton schooner carrying Labrador stationers to their Summer fishing-stations. ”
Samuel Alexander White, The foaming fore shore — II. The Freighter "Auk" (1918)
“ THE FREIGHTER AUK TAYLOR was up the ladder and on deck with amazing agility for one of such great frame, and on his heels tumbled Hughie and all the crew with the Reverend Lance hastily ascending in the rear. ”
