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52949	Riesenberg, Felix	Under Sail			.txt	text/plain	86827	4677	83	Those were the hard days of _large_ ships and _small_ crews. These ships bred a sea officer peculiar to the time--the bucko mate of best men in the ship, and far ahead of such fellows as Scouse, and Joe, ships sailing from New York, put to sea with her water tank barely a The conduct of a deep water sailing voyage in the old days of wooden good ship raced away on the new tack with the wind six points on the Our work under the fo'c'sle head got all hands started, and during many watch to take the place of Jimmy and Joe. Some of the men thought that I would be called aft as second mate. sailors in the crew, the men who knew enough to stand a watch at sea On Sunday, five days before we sailed, the captain called Old Smith aft	./cache/52949.txt	./txt/52949.txt