ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
“’Tis Tommie I’m after,” hollers back the SkipperFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
“All the looseness in my oil-pants is ketched tight”26
What’s that a-drivin’ in from sea, like a ghost from out the dawn?32
Stood by and took them as they came down64
A tug bore down and hailed them68
He was having another mug-up for himself114
The Lucy was acting like a vessel trying to coax the other152
“You just try it—just let me see you try it, Sam Leary”234