A Tall Ship / On Other Naval Occasions

m his forehead. A few fish scales transferred themselves fr

lay on the shingle, with the outgoing tide still lapping round her stern. "An' new strakes do cost tarrible lot." He sat puffing his clay pipe, and transferred his gaze from the

ing performance. For one thing, you associated the trick with irrepressible boyhood, and, for another, the old man squinted slightly as he

ching slowly across the shingle towards the boat. Ole Jarge sat smoking in philosophical sil

" he observe

ams, inside and out, much as a veterinary

at. "'Er's very nigh's ole 's what us be," he added, after a pa

grip the mind of the Cornish fisherfolk suddenly. It filters slowly through the chinks of the armour God has given them. Cornish men (and surely Cornish maid

and removed a tattered sou'wester to scratch his head with his thumbnai

rose to his feet with perplexity in his dark eyes, mechanically pulling up

es to men of the West once the

-what come out o' granfer's house when 'er blaw

arge

an' nail un down to bottom, 'long wi' oaku

ittle finger of an outstretched hand. Then he puckered his forehead and stared out to

en a sou'-wester on his head, and set off slowly across the shingle towa

after tea," said Ole J

great grandfather wou

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e receding tide when Ole Jarge emerged from his cottage door. In one hand he carried a hammer, and in

s put un tu

n of the boat. "Bring un along!" he commanded in a

and dumped his burden

himself. Bang! bang! bang-a-bang! bang! went the hammer. Young Jarge sa

nd of a drum," he s