Part 4 (1/2)

”Lay a-holt o' that tackle, then Behind ye!”

Harvey grabbed at a rope and long iron hook dangling from one of the stays of the main he called a ”topping-lift,” as Manuel drew alongside in his loaded dory The Portuguese smiled a brilliant smile that Harvey learned to knoell later, and a short-handled fork began to throw fish into the pen on deck ”Two hundred and thirty-one,” he shouted

”Give him the hook,” said Dan, and Harvey ran it into Manuel's hands

He slipped it through a loop of rope at the dory's bow, caught Dan's tackle, hooked it to the stern-becket, and clambered into the schooner

”Pull!” shouted Dan; and Harvey pulled, astonished to find how easily the dory rose

”Hold on; she don't nest in the crosstrees!” Dan laughed; and Harvey held on, for the boat lay in the air above his head

”Loay,” Dan shouted; and as Harvey lowered, Dan swayed the light boat with one hand till it landed softly just behind the ht ser

There's more trick to it in a sea-way”

”Ah ha!” said Manuel, holding out a brown hand ”You are soht the fish they fish for you Now you fish for fish Eh, wha-at?”

”I'rateful,” Harvey stammered, and his unfortunate hand stole to his pocket once more, but he remembered that he had no ht of the ht have made would cover him with hot, uneasy blushes in his bunk

”There is no to be thankful for to me!” said Manuel ”How shall I leave you dreeft, dreeft all around the Banks? Now you are a fisherman eh, wha-at? Ouh! Auh!” He bent backward and forward stiffly froet the kinks out of himself

”I have not cleaned boat to-day Too busy They struck on queek Danny, my son, clean forhe could do for the man who had saved his life

Dan threw hi up the sliood-will ”Hike out the foot-boards; they slide in therooves,” said Dan ”Swab 'em an' lay 'em down Never let a foot-board ja Jack”

A streaside

”Manuel, you take the tackle I'll fix the tables Harvey, clear Manuel's boat Long Jack's nestin' on the top of her”

Harvey looked up fro at the bottom of another dory just above his head

”Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?” said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other

”Takes to ut like a duck to water,” said Long Jack, a grizzly-chinned, long-lipped Galwayto and fro exactly as Manuel had done

Disko in the cabin growled up the hatchway, and they could hear him suck his pencil

”Wan hunder an' forty-nine an' a half--bad luck to ye, Discobolus!”

said Long Jack ”I'm murderin' meself to fill your pockuts Slate ut for a bad catch The Portugee has bate side, and more fish shot into the pen

”Two hundred and three Let's look at the passenger!” The speaker was even larger than the Galwayslantways froht corner of hiswhat else to do, Harvey swabbed each dory as it came down, pulled out the foot-boards, and laid theood,” said the scarredhi One's fisher-fashi+on--any end first an' a slippery hitch over all--an' the other's--”

”What we did on the old Ohio!” Dan interrupted, brushi+ng into the knot of s ”Git out o' here, Tom Platt, an'