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THE
CRADLE
OF THE
DEEP
BY
JOAN LOWELL
Illustrated by Kurt Wiese
1929
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
NEW YORK
FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1929, 75,000 COPIES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Copyright, 1929, by Simon and Schuster, Inc.
37 WEST 57 STREET NEW YORK
PRINTED IN U. S. A. BY VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, BINGHAMTON
BOUND BY H. WOLFF EST., N. Y.
DESIGNED BY ANDOR BRAUN
TO
Edward L. Bernays
AND
Hiram Kelly Motherwell
who encouraged me to write this book
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I
“I spit a curve in the wind”1
CHAPTER II
In which an alarm clock and some dried apricots are exchanged with natives for a nurse for me. The ship becomes my cradle15
CHAPTER III
“A ship is called a ‘she’ because her riggin’ costs more than her hull.”—Stitches23
CHAPTER IV
In which I learn that young ladies must not take baths in gentlemen’s drinking water33
CHAPTER V
Perfume on the cook’s feet and hair on my chest.—What of it?47
CHAPTER VI
A dead fish and a squarehead’s kiss55
CHAPTER VII
A runaway sea horse65
CHAPTER VIII
We catch a female shark and I learn about women from her—77
CHAPTER IX
In which I learn to take a joke. Hoping you may do the same87
CHAPTER X
A bucko Captain and his Bible chart for me the mysteries of sex95
CHAPTER XI
“The Sea gives up its dead”103
CHAPTER XII
A cursing contest and a hangman’s noose119
CHAPTER XIII
Ideas about Women133
CHAPTER XIV
I find navigating on shore full of shoals147
CHAPTER XV
From the region of floating mountains of ice to the Island of White Natives161
CHAPTER XVI
The clouds came down and the sea reached up to meet them and out of their travail a sea monster was born!179
CHAPTER XVII
Strip poker and female struck—which of course have nothing to do with each other191
CHAPTER XVIII
A shanghaied crew and scurvy are poor bunkmates in a White Squall203
CHAPTER XIX
The Dance of the Virgins on Atafu215
CHAPTER XX
A Love Story—which is an end and not a beginning235
CHAPTER XXI
“You pull for the shore, boys, Praying to Heaven above, But I’ll go down in the angry deep, With the ship I love.”247
THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP
