The Foaming Fore Shore (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Foaming Fore Shore Now, brothers, for the icebergs of frozen Labrador Floating spectral in the moonshine, along the low black shore! Where in the mist the rock is hiding, and the sharp reef lurks below And the white squall smites in Summer, and the Autumn tempests blow, Where through gray and rolling vapour, from evening unto morn, A thousand boats are hailing, horn answering unto horn. Whittier's "The Fisherman." Hughie Hay, lookout on the Gloucester schooner Graywing, queen of the American fishing fleet that fished the Labrador waters on the heels of the advantageous Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, paused at the foot of the perpendicular ladder that led from the vessel's deck down into her cramped cabin. In the act of unceremoniously breaking in on the scene below, his captain's uplifted finger held him, and he waited thus, staring across the smoke-blurred forecastle triangle, waiting for the forefinger of the brown sea-fist to fall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.