drunk."

"Glory be!" said Long Jack. "We'd ha' been obliged to help 'em if they
was top o' water."

"'Thinkin' o' that myself," said Tom Platt.

"Fey! Fey!" said the cook, rolling his eyes. "He haas taken his own
luck with him."

"Ver' good thing, I think, to tell the Fleet when we see. Eh, wha-at?"
said Manuel. "If you runna that way before the 'wind, and she work open
her seams--" He threw out his hands with an indescribable gesture,
while Penn sat down on the house and sobbed at the sheer horror and
pity of it all. Harvey could not realize that he had seen death on the
open waters, but he felt very sick. Then Dan went up the cross-trees,
and Disko steered them back to within sight of their own trawl-buoys
just before the fog blanketed the sea once again.

"We go mighty quick hereabouts when we do go," was all he said to
Harvey. "You think on that fer a spell, young feller. That was liquor."

"After dinner it was calm enough to fish from the decks,--Penn and
Uncle Salters were very zealous this time,--and the catch was large and
large fish.

"Abishai has shorely took his luck with him," said Salters. "The wind
hain't backed ner riz ner nothin'. How abaout the trawl? I despise
superstition, anyway."

Tom Platt insisted that they had much better haul the thing and make a
new berth. But the cook said: "The luck iss in two pieces. You will
find it so when you look. I know." This so tickled Long Jack that he
overbore Tom Platt and the two went out together.

Underrunning a trawl means pulling it in on one side of the dory,
picking off the fish, rebaiting the hooks, and passing them back to the
sea again--something like pinning and unpinning linen on a wash-line.
It is a lengthy business and rather dangerous, for the long, sagging
line may twitch a boat under in a flash. But when they heard, "And naow
to thee, O Capting," booming out of the fog, the crew of the _We're
Here_ took heart. The dory swirled alongside well loaded, Tom Platt
yelling for Manuel to act as relief-boat.

"The luck's cut square in two pieces," said Long Jack, forking in the
fish, while Harvey stood open-mouthed at the skill with which the
plunging dory was saved from destruction. "One half was jest punkins.
Tom Platt wanted to haul her an' ha' done wid ut; but I said, "I'll
back the doctor that has the second sight, an' the other half come up
sagging full o' big uns. Hurry, Man'nle, an' bring's a tub o' bait.
There's luck afloat to-night.