Then
he went away.

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Then Captain Sol had the sailors fix the sails so that the ship would go
ahead, and he had a sailor stand at the flag halliards and dip the flag
for a salute to the English ships. And the _Industry_ sailed away from
those English ships towards Gibraltar, and pretty soon the ships were
out of sight.

And that's all.

THE CARGO STORY

Once upon a time there was a wide river that ran into the ocean, and
beside it was a little city. And in that city was a wharf where great
ships came from far countries. And a narrow road led down a very steep
hill to that wharf, and anybody that wanted to go to the wharf had to go
down the steep hill on the narrow road, for there wasn't any other way.
And because ships had come there for a great many years and all the
sailors and all the captains and all the men who had business with the
ships had to go on that narrow road, the flagstones that made the
sidewalk were much worn. That was a great many years ago.

That wharf was Captain Jonathan's and Captain Jacob's and they owned the
ships that sailed from it; and, after their ships had been sailing from
that wharf in the little city for a good many years, they changed their
office to Boston. After that their ships sailed from a wharf in Boston.

Once the brig _Industry_ was all ready to sail from Boston for far
countries. She had her cargo all stowed, but Captain Sol hadn't seen it
stowed, for he had had to be away from Boston while it was being put
aboard. So a lumper, or 'longshoreman, had told the men where to put
things. A lumper was a man who did the work of carrying things into a
ship, or out of it. This man was a pretty good 'longshoreman, but a
lumper wasn't a sailor and couldn't be expected to get the things stowed
quite so well as a captain or a mate. The captain or the mate would be
more interested in having the things stowed well, for it makes a great
difference, in the sailing of a ship and in her behavior, how the cargo
is stowed. Captain Sol generally liked to attend to those things
himself.

They had put on board all the things that they would eat and the water
that they would drink; and Captain Sol came back and the _Industry_
sailed away from that wharf out upon the great ocean. And she sailed the
length of the Atlantic, but she met a good deal of rough weather and
she ran into three or four storms.

Captain Sol soon found that the cargo hadn't been well stowed and it