Wilbur Daniel Steele

Name: The Younger Twin
Author: Wilbur Daniel Steele

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“The Younger Twin”, is a work by Wilbur Daniel Steele. It explores elements such as Skipper Lemuel, the Equatorial Dawn and Pickert.

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ He squeezed a wooden egg out of the blueyam sock which he had been in the act of repairing, and commenced to pace the deck uneasily, still frowning.
The tide was out, and the Equatorial Dawn lay on the flats in the shadow of Pickert's Wharf, canting outward a little. It was not a large vessel, this schooner of his. Skipper Lemuel was at the same time Owner Lemuel, Mate Lemuel,Ahie-Seaman Lemuel, and Cabin boy Lemuel, pursuing his business quite alone; and when he spoke of the Equatorial Dawn as "Fo'ty fut over all," it was with a mental reservation in favor of the bowsprit. ”

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ He sighed. I imagine Newton may have sighed so after the apple struck the ground. There is nothing so exhausting as a perfectly new idea.
"This is the day I'm busy," the lady of the blue ribbon suggested. It was evident that she was about to do some Sabbath sweeping, as she took up the broom in both hands. Skipper Lemuel moved off toward his beached dinghy, and under his feet the gravel sent up a staccato of triumph to the sky.
It was a month before the Equatorial Dawn had another freight for Old Harbor, and on this occasion the berth at Pickett's was vacant. ”

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ Skipper Lemuel refused to give up. Instead, he did a more cowardly thing—he sank into inaction. For thirteen months he studiously avoided the paths of women.
And then one evening he steered the Equatorial Dautt into Old Harbor with a cargo of early apples from up Connecticut way. Through the dusk he made out a vessel lying in his accustomed berth alongside Pickert's Wharf, and he turned to the westward and dropped his anchor in the Cove, under the sheltering thumb of Spankin' Head. ”

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ He rose, put away the sock, rilled the bucket from the now replenished butt, and entered the dinghy-boat.
Man is a helpless sort of an animal* Most other creatures having had any experience at all with traps seem to know enough to let them severely alone thereafter. In general they have wonderful noses.
Skipper Lemuel went up the crackly path, came to a halt before the door of the light-tower, stood there for a moment in a state of petrifaction, and, when he had at last found his internal voice, cried out that he might have known. ”

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ The delighted seafarer had a narrow escape in the garden, where that young and frivolous "green ribb'n" nearly had hold of his sleeve before he realized what she was about, and then pursued him in his dignified retreat to the beach with irritating pleasantries. Once fairly off the flats, however, he could rest on his oars, mop his blazing brow, and return to his pleasant contemplation of the beloved's rehabilitation.
"She hez her off days,"he ruminated, in a glow of charity, "just like any other mortil. 'S tew much t* ast puffection every day 'n the week, I s'pose." ”

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ She took one of them away to wave at him, calling, merrily: "Hello, good-looking man! What do you want?"
It may be said to his credit that he did not answer. Instead, he lowered his bitter eyes and moved off toward the water-tank* He had learned his lesson* He reached up with a grim gesture of finality and poured the water into the tank and came away* It had been in the kitchen there—he paused to scowl into that House of Judas—and the bucket left his limp hand and crashed on the gravel. ”

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Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Younger Twin

“ When 11 it be?"
"When will what be?" she inquired, 'Tm ih&ough with vou an' all yer Kind with a return of asperity. She was rolling out pie-crust and there was a certain vague suggestion of offensive weapons about the roller in her hand.
"Our gettin' married."
"When the cows come home." ”

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