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XX. The Skipper Puts for Home 172 XXI. Seiners’ Work 175 XXII. On the Cape Shore 184 XXIII. Dressing Down 193 XXIV. The Withrow Outsails the Duncan 202 XXV. Trouble With the Dominion Cutters 206 XXVI. The Gossip in Gloucester 211 XXVII. In Clancy’s Boarding-House 217 XXVIII. In the Arkell Kitchen 220 XXIX. Maurice Blake Comes Home 230 XXX. The Morning of the Race 235 XXXI. The Start of the Race 243 XXXII. O’donnell Carries Away Both Masts 250 XXXIII. The Able Johnnie Duncan 257 XXXIV. Minnie Arkell Once More 265 XXXV. Clancy Lays Down the Law 271 XXXVI. Maurice Blake Is Recalled 281 XXXVII. The Girl in Canso 289 XXXVIII. The Duncan Goes to the West’ard 297 XXXIX. The Heart of Clancy 309

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THE SEINERS

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The Seiners

It was only a few days before this that the new vessel of Mr. Withrow’s, built by him, as everybody supposed, for Maurice Blake, had been towed around from Essex, and I remember how Maurice stood on the dock that afternoon and looked her over.

There was not a bolt or a plank or a seam in her whole hull, not a square