suit, good cloth and a fine fit.

"You'll soon dry out in the sun, Andie-boy," they all said to him.

"I s'pose so. But will my clothes ever fit me again like they
did?--and my fine new patent-leather shoes!"

Drifting down by the dock next to Duncan's our long bowsprit almost
swept off a row of old fellows from the cap-log. They had to scramble,
but didn't mind. "Good luck, and I hope you fill her up," they called
out.

"Oh, we'll try and get our share of 'em," our fellows called back.

There was a young woman on the next dock--one of the kind that quite
often come down to take snap-shots. A stranger to Gloucester she must
have been, for not only that Gloucester girls don't generally come
down to the docks to see the fishermen off, but she said good-by to
us. She meant all right, but she should never have said good-by to a
fisherman. It's unlucky. Too many of them don't come back, and then
the good-by comes true.

Andie Howe looked a funny sight when we were making sail. Clancy, who,
once he got started, took a lot of stopping, was still going:

"Oh, the Johnnie Duncan, fast and able--
Good-by, dear, good-by, my Mabel--
And will you save a kiss for me
When I come back from sea?"

"Yes," roared Andie,

"And don't forget I love you, dear,
And save a kiss for me,"

with the salt water dripping from his fine new suit of clothes and the
patent-leather shoes he was so fond of.

And Clancy again:

"Oh, a deep blue sky and a deep blue sea
And a blue-eyed girl awaiting me,"

and Howe,

"Oh, too-roo-roo and a too-roo-ree
And a hi-did-dy ho-did-dy ho-dee-dee,"

and Clancy,

"Too-roo-roo and a too-roo-ree,
The Johnnie Duncan's going to sea,"

and Howe--a little shy on the words--

"Tum-did-dy dum-did-dy dum-did-dy-dum,
Hoo-roo-roo and a dum by gum."

And by that time the gang were joining in and sheeting flat the
topsails with a great swing.

I don't suppose that Gloucester Harbor will ever again look as
beautiful to me as it did that morning when we sailed out. Forty sail
of seiners leaving within two hours, and to see them going--to see
them one after another loose sails and up with them, break out
anchors, pay off, and away! It was the first day of April and the
first fine day in a week, and those handsome vessels going out one
after the other in their fresh paint and new sails--it was a sight to
make a man's heart thump.

"The Johnnie Dunc