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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Wreck of the Mail Steamer - -Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell - -Illustrator: Anton Otto Fischer - -Release Date: February 24, 2022 [eBook #67489] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WRECK OF THE MAIL STEAMER *** - - - The Wreck of the Mail Steamer - - By Wilfred T. Grenfell - - -The Northwest coast of Newfoundland is no favorite with our seafarers -in the fall of the year. The long, straight, rock-bound shore line for -eighty miles in one stretch, offers no shelter whatever even to the -small vessels that ply to and fro along it in pursuit of their -calling. Yet, as great shoals of codfish frequent the cold waters of -the north shore of the Gulf, just as soon as the frozen sea permits it -in spring, swarms of fishing craft, of all sizes, from all the -Newfoundland coasts, and even from as far south as Gloucester, push -their way “down North” in pursuit of the finny harvest. On the -Newfoundland vessels women and children often come, the women helping -to cure the fish and cook for the men, the children because they can’t -be left behind. - -Uncle Joe Halfmast had not been North for some years, for he had never -liked the sea and, like many another of our handy fishermen, he had -developed great talents as a carpenter. But this year the people of -Wild Bight were building a church, and had induced Uncle Joe to come -down and lead them. It was a late season; the fall weather had been so -wet and “blustersome” that the men found it impossible to dry their -fish for shipment as usual, and were consequently late getting ready -for the return South. Moreover the church had to be sheathed in before -Christmas, so that, when spring came round, the work would not have to -be done over again. - -The one little mail steamer which served three hundred miles of coast -was unusually crowded with passengers and wrecked crews, and it had -twice passed Wild Bight without calling on the southern journey, owing -to the impossibility of making the Cove in northwest gales. Indeed -every inch of space aboard her had been already occupied long before -she reached us. Thus for three long weeks we had been waiting for a -chance to go South. - -Winter had set in in real earnest. Ice was making everywhere, and to -offset our anxiety the whole Cove was secretly rejoicing that we might -be compensated by Uncle Joe having to spend the winter with us. He was -justified a little by the fact that everyone knew his attitude to -rough seas, and that if he returned he had promised to take back with -him Susie Carless’ derelict baby—a tiny piece of flotsam—with no -natural guardian to “fare” for it. And near Christmas is no time for -sending babies traveling round our northwest coast. Uncle Joe said -nothing—he never did—and the church grew steadily under his hands. - -“I’m not worrying,” was Uncle Joe’s motto, “I leave that to Him that -watches over us,” he would add, if he was in a real talkative mood. - -So as a matter of fact no one was surprised when, one day after -Michaelmas, a familiar fussy whistle broke the absolute silence of the -harbor just at the first streak of dawn, and kept restlessly repeating -itself as if to say, “Last chance—last chance—last chance for the -year. Hustle, hustle, hustle.” Sorry as they were to lose him, all -hands went to help Uncle Joe off, and give the baby those last touches -that only women’s hands are allowed “to be able for” on our coast. - -[Illustration: All hands went to help Uncle Joe off] - -The little vessel was crowded, for her accommodation; badly -overcrowded. But she was as fine a little sea vessel as money and -human skill could make her and through many a gale of wind she had -safely carried our friends. It was bitterly cold, the thermometer -being actually away below zero, and our weatherwise people knew that -something was brewing to windward that boded no good to a small boat -however staunch, with only our long miles of harborless coast under -her lea. Some at the risk of appearing self-interested, urged the old -man to stay right on through the winter, and with that unbounded -hospitality that is so universal a characteristic of our northern -people were offering him a home, “baby and all.” But Uncle Joe’s -philosophy is proof against any fears, indeed his faith is such real -simple working material all through his life that the cynic calls it -fatalism. So, as from those who saw St. Paul off on his long sea -journey from the beach at Ephesus, not a few prayers went up for their -friend and his helpless charge, as the little column of smoke once -more disappeared into the sullen darkness that hung on the horizon -under the southern sky, while the ominous soughing of the sea note on -the rocks sent all hands back to make everything fast, even about the -small homes on the land. - -The storm did not actually break till after dark that night but slow -come is long last with us, and it will be still longer before the -memory of that Christmas gale ceases to blow in our memories. - -The mail steamer was lost in it, violently blown out of the water on -that evil coast. But these happenings are not strange in our world and -we never got the story till the following year when one fine Sunday -morning I happened to drop into young Harry Barney’s home, a little -wooden cottage on the glorious sandy beach at L’Anse au Loup in -Labrador. - -Harry was enjoying a morning pipe of peace, with his darky embryo -Vikings playing round the door. This was my reward for a Sunday visit. -For it is as easy to catch a weasel asleep as Harry with time to burn -from midnight Sunday till the next Day of Rest comes round. - -A big liner had run ashore close to us only a week before, and was now -an abandoned wreck lying well out of water on the north side of Burnt -Island, so we fell to talking of wrecks, and the topic of the loss of -our mail steamer came up. To my amazement he said, “Yes, I knows about -her, doctor, I was fireman aboard when she was cast away.” - -“You? What have you to do with steamers?” - -“Oh, they shipped me and poor Cyril Manstock as they couldn’t get men -south. I’d acted runner before, but it was Cyril’s first voyage, and -he died after of consumption, as you know. They says it was that chill -did it.” - -“Tell us about it, Harry. We heard that a dog saved all hands by -carrying a line ashore. I’ve been crazy to get the facts from an eye -witness.” - -“I wasn’t much of an eye witness till we were high and dry, but I saw -the dog do his bit, doctor, and he certainly did it all right.” - - * * * * * - -“We knew below decks by six o’clock—that’s just at dark—that it would -be a fight for life,” he began. “What was left of our coal was all -dust, and we’d had trouble keeping steam with it even in smooth water. -We were anchored then, right on the straight shore, landing some -freight for the village at Cowhead. The wind was already rising and -the sea beginning to make. - -“My watch was from eight to twelve. But I was a new hand and wanted to -give her every chance, so I went on at six to watch that the fires -were kept clear and a good head of steam when we made a start. It did -seem an awful time delaying, and I wished a hundred times that we -would throw that freight overboard. - -“I guess I was a bit excited. But when at last the bell did go, we -were all ready below. It was a hard fight, however, from the first. -For the boat was small and we knew she couldn’t do much in a dead hard -sea. Her propeller comes out and she races, and it’s no soft job -trying to fire at the best of times. She wasn’t so bad first out in -the spring either. But like everything else, she had run down with -hard usage and at the end of the long season she couldn’t do her best -by a long way. However, as I said, we had a full head of steam when -the gong rang at last and, for a time, it looked as if we might make -it by standing right out to sea. - -“The fierce dust in the stokehole from the powdery coal, and the heavy -and quick rolling soon made our eyes blind and our throats dry, and -before my watch was out at midnight I just had to go up for water. I -found the doors were all sealed up with ice, so had to crawl out -through a ventilator to get that drink. I hadn’t been up two minutes, -it seemed, before the chief sent for me to hurry down again, as the -steam was going back. I was only second fireman really on my watch, -but the first, a Frenchman who had been at it seven years, was an -oldish fellow and was getting all in. At midnight watches were called -but both of us stuck to it for we were losing steam again. Water was -now washing up over the plates of the engine room, and we were wet and -badly knocked about by the ship rolling us off our legs when we tried -to shovel in coal. - -“At two o’clock the old man gave in altogether and went up, and I -never saw him again until it was all over. Cyril was in as trimmer, -and he came in to help me. Every time I opened the fire box door Cyril -would grab me by the waist and hold on hard, but in spite of it I got -thrown almost into the fire one time by the ship diving as I let go to -throw the coal in.” - -Harry here showed me a big scar across his arm and one on his face. “I -got these that time,” he remarked, “just to remember her by. - -“The water was rising then in the engine room, and the pumps had got -blocked so we couldn’t pump it out. We didn’t think she was leaking -but we heard after some port holes had been stove in, and she took in -water every time she rolled. We got the pumps to work again after a -while. But the doors being frozen up above we had no way to get rid of -our ashes, and they were washing all around in the engine room, and it -was impossible to keep the runways clear. - -“The worst of it was that now the water was in the bunkers, and mixed -up with the coal making it into a kind of porridge. It was just like -black mud to handle, and you couldn’t get it off the shovel until you -banged the blade against the iron firebars. - -“So steam began to drop again, and went so low that our electrics -nearly went out and we got repeated orders from the bridge for more -steam and more steam. It appears we were making no headway at all with -only 80 pounds pressure and, in fact, were slowly being driven -sideways into the cliffs. We worked all we could, but things went from -bad to worse, the water rose and splashed up against the fire box -making clouds of steam, so though the dust was laid, what with the -steam and the darkness, and the long watch, we couldn’t keep her -going. Moreover it seemed as if we would be drowned like rats below -there, and I tell you we wouldn’t have minded being on deck, cold as -it was. - -“We heard afterwards that one of the stewards had been fishing on this -part of the coast. He knew every nick and corner, and said there was a -little sandy cove round St. Martin’s Cape, where a small head of rock -might break the seas enough to let us land, for they knew on deck now -that the ship was doomed. For my part I knew nothing, but that work as -we would the steam gauge would not rise one pound. Beyond that, what -happened didn’t even interest us. We hadn’t time to worry about -danger. - - * * * * * - -“One sea did, however, make us madder than others. Something had been -happening on deck. The heavy thumps like butting ice had reached us -down below. It turned out to be the lifeboat that had been washed out -of davits and went bumping all down the deck, clearing up things as it -went. Anyhow something came open and as we were getting coal from the -lea bunkers a lot of icy water came through the gratings and washed us -well down, sweaty and grimy as we were. Somehow that seemed to set my -teeth again, and we had the satisfaction of seeing the steam crawl -once more to 100 pounds. - -“The bridge must have got on to it at once and noticed we were making -headway again. The fact was we were now rounding the Cape called -Martin’s Head. We knew they knew, for they again called us for still -more steam—thinking we had got the top hand. It so happened that a -long shoal known as the whale’s back was now the only barrier we had -to weather. But till this spurt hope of doing it had almost gone. -Well, all I know is that suddenly there was a scrape—a bumpety, -bumpety, bump, and then a jump that made us think we were playing at -being an aeroplane—and then on we went as before. She was making water -more rapidly, but beyond that we knew nothing. It was rising now to -our knees, nearly, and any moment might flood the fires. We had -actually been washed right over the tail end of the whale-back reef, -the tremendous ground sea having tipped us right over, almost without -touching. - -“They say it was only ten minutes or so more to the end—it seemed -hours. The motion had changed and we knew we were before the sea. Then -suddenly there was a heavy bump, that made us shiver from deck to keel -on, then she seemed to stop, take another big jump, and then do the -whole thing once more. We were on the beach and the water was flooding -into the hold. - -“Cyril had gone some time before, played out. I could see nothing for -steam but waded towards the ‘alloway’ into the engine room. There also -everything was pitch dark but I knew by feeling which way to go. It -seemed a long while, but at last I found the ladder, and made a jump -to hustle out of the rising water. My head butted into something soft -as I did so. It was our second engineer—he had been at his post till -the end. - -“There was only one chance now for escape. It was the ventilator. I -was proud I had learnt that in the night. It did not take me long to -shin up through it and drop on the companion clinging onto the edge. - -“The icy wind chilled me to the bone and sheets of spray were frozen -over everything. A sea striking her at that moment washed right over -me, but before the next came I was behind the funnel, hanging on for -life to one of the stays. Another dive between seas landed me in the -saloon and from there I dropped down, and climbed to the foc’sle to -get some dry clothes.” - -“That’s all you know, I suppose?” - -“About all,” he answered, “except that I had to go some miles when I -landed to get shelter, and got no food till next night.” - -“Did anyone thank you for your work?” - -“Not yet,” he answered with a smile. - -“What steam had she when you struck the last time?” I asked. - -“A full hundred pounds,” and a gleam of joy that endures lit his -eyes—that joy that assures us of the real significance of life. - - * * * * * - -I was admiring the church at Wild Bight this fall—having blown in—in -one of our periodical medical rounds. Nothing was further from my mind -than the wreck of the previous winter when suddenly I noticed the -familiar features of old Uncle Joe peering at me from behind a pillar. -In a moment I saw him again, leaving the harbor with his precious -baby, and I wondered how it had all ended. - -“Well you see, Doctor, about daylight the ladies’ cabin got flooded -out and they were all driven out of that; all the passengers that -could crowded into the little saloon on deck. The baby did not seem to -mind it at all and as there was no use going on deck, even if we had -been able, that’s where I took it. After we struck, however, and the -seas were washing partly over the ship I went out to see if there were -any chance for us. The captain, who had never left the bridge, was -there. His cheeks were all frostbitten. He had already launched a boat -and was trying to get some men landed. - -“It was broad daylight, a little after midday, and we were right under -a big cliff, so close that you could almost touch it. The projecting -head of the cliff sheltered the forepart of the vessel fairly well, -but a thundering surf was beating on the beach. The boat was soon glad -to be hauled in again. She was smashed and filled, and the men had -nearly been lost. So we all fell to it, and tried to get a line -ashore. - -“There were men there now from the shore who had seen us. They were -watching us from above the breakers, and evidently understood what we -were doing. For when at last we flung the line into the water, they -rushed down and tried to get it. But the backwash carried it always -beyond their reach. One of them ran up to a cottage near-by and came -back with a jigger, and as the seas washed the rope along, tried to -fling it over, and hook the line. But they somehow couldn’t do it. - -“Then I suddenly saw there was a big dog with them, rushing up and -down, and barking as they tried for the line. All of a sudden, after -they seemed to have done their best and failed, the dog rushed down -into the sea, held the rope in his teeth till the tide ran out, and -then backed with it till the men grabbed it. They took the line up the -cliff, and I helped rig a chair on it in which we tied the passengers, -and so sent them every one ashore safely. No, I didn’t even get my -feet wet myself. You see I had my rubbers on. The baby? Oh, I tied the -baby up in a mail bag and sent him ashore by himself. They told me -when they opened the bag to see what was in it, the baby just smiled -at them, as if it had only been having a bit of a rock in the cradle -of the deep. - -[Illustration: After they seemed to have failed, the dog rushed down -into the sea, held the rope in his teeth....] - -“We were home for Christmas after all. And somehow, Doctor, I had my -mind made up to how it would be about that when I said good-bye to -them that morning at Wild Bight. - -“The folks all got together and gave that dog a hundred dollar collar -but the poor owner had to sell the dog, collar and all, a little later -to get food.” - - -[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the April 1923 issue -of The American Boy magazine.] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WRECK OF THE MAIL STEAMER *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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The long, straight, rock-bound shore line for -eighty miles in one stretch, offers no shelter whatever even to the -small vessels that ply to and fro along it in pursuit of their -calling. Yet, as great shoals of codfish frequent the cold waters of -the north shore of the Gulf, just as soon as the frozen sea permits it -in spring, swarms of fishing craft, of all sizes, from all the -Newfoundland coasts, and even from as far south as Gloucester, push -their way “down North” in pursuit of the finny harvest. On the -Newfoundland vessels women and children often come, the women helping -to cure the fish and cook for the men, the children because they can’t -be left behind.</p> - -<p>Uncle Joe Halfmast had not been North for some years, for he had never -liked the sea and, like many another of our handy fishermen, he had -developed great talents as a carpenter. But this year the people of -Wild Bight were building a church, and had induced Uncle Joe to come -down and lead them. It was a late season; the fall weather had been so -wet and “blustersome” that the men found it impossible to dry their -fish for shipment as usual, and were consequently late getting ready -for the return South. Moreover the church had to be sheathed in before -Christmas, so that, when spring came round, the work would not have to -be done over again.</p> - -<p>The one little mail steamer which served three hundred miles of coast -was unusually crowded with passengers and wrecked crews, and it had -twice passed Wild Bight without calling on the southern journey, owing -to the impossibility of making the Cove in northwest gales. Indeed -every inch of space aboard her had been already occupied long before -she reached us. Thus for three long weeks we had been waiting for a -chance to go South.</p> - -<p>Winter had set in in real earnest. Ice was making everywhere, and to -offset our anxiety the whole Cove was secretly rejoicing that we might -be compensated by Uncle Joe having to spend the winter with us. He was -justified a little by the fact that everyone knew his attitude to -rough seas, and that if he returned he had promised to take back with -him Susie Carless’ derelict baby—a tiny piece of flotsam—with no -natural guardian to “fare” for it. And near Christmas is no time for -sending babies traveling round our northwest coast. Uncle Joe said -nothing—he never did—and the church grew steadily under his hands.</p> - -<p>“I’m not worrying,” was Uncle Joe’s motto, “I leave that to Him that -watches over us,” he would add, if he was in a real talkative mood.</p> - -<p>So as a matter of fact no one was surprised when, one day after -Michaelmas, a familiar fussy whistle broke the absolute silence of the -harbor just at the first streak of dawn, and kept restlessly repeating -itself as if to say, “Last chance—last chance—last chance for the -year. Hustle, hustle, hustle.” Sorry as they were to lose him, all -hands went to help Uncle Joe off, and give the baby those last touches -that only women’s hands are allowed “to be able for” on our coast.</p> - -<div id='i001' class='mt01 mb01 wi001'> - <img src='images/illus-001.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> -<p class='caption'>All hands went to help Uncle Joe off</p> -</div> -<p>The little vessel was crowded, for her accommodation; badly -overcrowded. But she was as fine a little sea vessel as money and -human skill could make her and through many a gale of wind she had -safely carried our friends. It was bitterly cold, the thermometer -being actually away below zero, and our weatherwise people knew that -something was brewing to windward that boded no good to a small boat -however staunch, with only our long miles of harborless coast under -her lea. Some at the risk of appearing self-interested, urged the old -man to stay right on through the winter, and with that unbounded -hospitality that is so universal a characteristic of our northern -people were offering him a home, “baby and all.” But Uncle Joe’s -philosophy is proof against any fears, indeed his faith is such real -simple working material all through his life that the cynic calls it -fatalism. So, as from those who saw St. Paul off on his long sea -journey from the beach at Ephesus, not a few prayers went up for their -friend and his helpless charge, as the little column of smoke once -more disappeared into the sullen darkness that hung on the horizon -under the southern sky, while the ominous soughing of the sea note on -the rocks sent all hands back to make everything fast, even about the -small homes on the land.</p> - -<p>The storm did not actually break till after dark that night but slow -come is long last with us, and it will be still longer before the -memory of that Christmas gale ceases to blow in our memories.</p> - -<p>The mail steamer was lost in it, violently blown out of the water on -that evil coast. But these happenings are not strange in our world and -we never got the story till the following year when one fine Sunday -morning I happened to drop into young Harry Barney’s home, a little -wooden cottage on the glorious sandy beach at L’Anse au Loup in -Labrador.</p> - -<p>Harry was enjoying a morning pipe of peace, with his darky embryo -Vikings playing round the door. This was my reward for a Sunday visit. -For it is as easy to catch a weasel asleep as Harry with time to burn -from midnight Sunday till the next Day of Rest comes round.</p> - -<p>A big liner had run ashore close to us only a week before, and was now -an abandoned wreck lying well out of water on the north side of Burnt -Island, so we fell to talking of wrecks, and the topic of the loss of -our mail steamer came up. To my amazement he said, “Yes, I knows about -her, doctor, I was fireman aboard when she was cast away.”</p> - -<p>“You? What have you to do with steamers?”</p> - -<p>“Oh, they shipped me and poor Cyril Manstock as they couldn’t get men -south. I’d acted runner before, but it was Cyril’s first voyage, and -he died after of consumption, as you know. They says it was that chill -did it.”</p> - -<p>“Tell us about it, Harry. We heard that a dog saved all hands by -carrying a line ashore. I’ve been crazy to get the facts from an eye -witness.”</p> - -<p>“I wasn’t much of an eye witness till we were high and dry, but I saw -the dog do his bit, doctor, and he certainly did it all right.”</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>“We knew below decks by six o’clock—that’s just at dark—that it would -be a fight for life,” he began. “What was left of our coal was all -dust, and we’d had trouble keeping steam with it even in smooth water. -We were anchored then, right on the straight shore, landing some -freight for the village at Cowhead. The wind was already rising and -the sea beginning to make.</p> - -<p>“My watch was from eight to twelve. But I was a new hand and wanted to -give her every chance, so I went on at six to watch that the fires -were kept clear and a good head of steam when we made a start. It did -seem an awful time delaying, and I wished a hundred times that we -would throw that freight overboard.</p> - -<p>“I guess I was a bit excited. But when at last the bell did go, we -were all ready below. It was a hard fight, however, from the first. -For the boat was small and we knew she couldn’t do much in a dead hard -sea. Her propeller comes out and she races, and it’s no soft job -trying to fire at the best of times. She wasn’t so bad first out in -the spring either. But like everything else, she had run down with -hard usage and at the end of the long season she couldn’t do her best -by a long way. However, as I said, we had a full head of steam when -the gong rang at last and, for a time, it looked as if we might make -it by standing right out to sea.</p> - -<p>“The fierce dust in the stokehole from the powdery coal, and the heavy -and quick rolling soon made our eyes blind and our throats dry, and -before my watch was out at midnight I just had to go up for water. I -found the doors were all sealed up with ice, so had to crawl out -through a ventilator to get that drink. I hadn’t been up two minutes, -it seemed, before the chief sent for me to hurry down again, as the -steam was going back. I was only second fireman really on my watch, -but the first, a Frenchman who had been at it seven years, was an -oldish fellow and was getting all in. At midnight watches were called -but both of us stuck to it for we were losing steam again. Water was -now washing up over the plates of the engine room, and we were wet and -badly knocked about by the ship rolling us off our legs when we tried -to shovel in coal.</p> - -<p>“At two o’clock the old man gave in altogether and went up, and I -never saw him again until it was all over. Cyril was in as trimmer, -and he came in to help me. Every time I opened the fire box door Cyril -would grab me by the waist and hold on hard, but in spite of it I got -thrown almost into the fire one time by the ship diving as I let go to -throw the coal in.”</p> - -<p>Harry here showed me a big scar across his arm and one on his face. “I -got these that time,” he remarked, “just to remember her by.</p> - -<p>“The water was rising then in the engine room, and the pumps had got -blocked so we couldn’t pump it out. We didn’t think she was leaking -but we heard after some port holes had been stove in, and she took in -water every time she rolled. We got the pumps to work again after a -while. But the doors being frozen up above we had no way to get rid of -our ashes, and they were washing all around in the engine room, and it -was impossible to keep the runways clear.</p> - -<p>“The worst of it was that now the water was in the bunkers, and mixed -up with the coal making it into a kind of porridge. It was just like -black mud to handle, and you couldn’t get it off the shovel until you -banged the blade against the iron firebars.</p> - -<p>“So steam began to drop again, and went so low that our electrics -nearly went out and we got repeated orders from the bridge for more -steam and more steam. It appears we were making no headway at all with -only 80 pounds pressure and, in fact, were slowly being driven -sideways into the cliffs. We worked all we could, but things went from -bad to worse, the water rose and splashed up against the fire box -making clouds of steam, so though the dust was laid, what with the -steam and the darkness, and the long watch, we couldn’t keep her -going. Moreover it seemed as if we would be drowned like rats below -there, and I tell you we wouldn’t have minded being on deck, cold as -it was.</p> - -<p>“We heard afterwards that one of the stewards had been fishing on this -part of the coast. He knew every nick and corner, and said there was a -little sandy cove round St. Martin’s Cape, where a small head of rock -might break the seas enough to let us land, for they knew on deck now -that the ship was doomed. For my part I knew nothing, but that work as -we would the steam gauge would not rise one pound. Beyond that, what -happened didn’t even interest us. We hadn’t time to worry about -danger.</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>“One sea did, however, make us madder than others. Something had been -happening on deck. The heavy thumps like butting ice had reached us -down below. It turned out to be the lifeboat that had been washed out -of davits and went bumping all down the deck, clearing up things as it -went. Anyhow something came open and as we were getting coal from the -lea bunkers a lot of icy water came through the gratings and washed us -well down, sweaty and grimy as we were. Somehow that seemed to set my -teeth again, and we had the satisfaction of seeing the steam crawl -once more to 100 pounds.</p> - -<p>“The bridge must have got on to it at once and noticed we were making -headway again. The fact was we were now rounding the Cape called -Martin’s Head. We knew they knew, for they again called us for still -more steam—thinking we had got the top hand. It so happened that a -long shoal known as the whale’s back was now the only barrier we had -to weather. But till this spurt hope of doing it had almost gone. -Well, all I know is that suddenly there was a scrape—a bumpety, -bumpety, bump, and then a jump that made us think we were playing at -being an aeroplane—and then on we went as before. She was making water -more rapidly, but beyond that we knew nothing. It was rising now to -our knees, nearly, and any moment might flood the fires. We had -actually been washed right over the tail end of the whale-back reef, -the tremendous ground sea having tipped us right over, almost without -touching.</p> - -<p>“They say it was only ten minutes or so more to the end—it seemed -hours. The motion had changed and we knew we were before the sea. Then -suddenly there was a heavy bump, that made us shiver from deck to keel -on, then she seemed to stop, take another big jump, and then do the -whole thing once more. We were on the beach and the water was flooding -into the hold.</p> - -<p>“Cyril had gone some time before, played out. I could see nothing for -steam but waded towards the ‘alloway’ into the engine room. There also -everything was pitch dark but I knew by feeling which way to go. It -seemed a long while, but at last I found the ladder, and made a jump -to hustle out of the rising water. My head butted into something soft -as I did so. It was our second engineer—he had been at his post till -the end.</p> - -<p>“There was only one chance now for escape. It was the ventilator. I -was proud I had learnt that in the night. It did not take me long to -shin up through it and drop on the companion clinging onto the edge.</p> - -<p>“The icy wind chilled me to the bone and sheets of spray were frozen -over everything. A sea striking her at that moment washed right over -me, but before the next came I was behind the funnel, hanging on for -life to one of the stays. Another dive between seas landed me in the -saloon and from there I dropped down, and climbed to the foc’sle to -get some dry clothes.”</p> - -<p>“That’s all you know, I suppose?”</p> - -<p>“About all,” he answered, “except that I had to go some miles when I -landed to get shelter, and got no food till next night.”</p> - -<p>“Did anyone thank you for your work?”</p> - -<p>“Not yet,” he answered with a smile.</p> - -<p>“What steam had she when you struck the last time?” I asked.</p> - -<p>“A full hundred pounds,” and a gleam of joy that endures lit his -eyes—that joy that assures us of the real significance of life.</p> - -<div style='height:1em;'></div> -<p>I was admiring the church at Wild Bight this fall—having blown in—in -one of our periodical medical rounds. Nothing was further from my mind -than the wreck of the previous winter when suddenly I noticed the -familiar features of old Uncle Joe peering at me from behind a pillar. -In a moment I saw him again, leaving the harbor with his precious -baby, and I wondered how it had all ended.</p> - -<p>“Well you see, Doctor, about daylight the ladies’ cabin got flooded -out and they were all driven out of that; all the passengers that -could crowded into the little saloon on deck. The baby did not seem to -mind it at all and as there was no use going on deck, even if we had -been able, that’s where I took it. After we struck, however, and the -seas were washing partly over the ship I went out to see if there were -any chance for us. The captain, who had never left the bridge, was -there. His cheeks were all frostbitten. He had already launched a boat -and was trying to get some men landed.</p> - -<p>“It was broad daylight, a little after midday, and we were right under -a big cliff, so close that you could almost touch it. The projecting -head of the cliff sheltered the forepart of the vessel fairly well, -but a thundering surf was beating on the beach. The boat was soon glad -to be hauled in again. She was smashed and filled, and the men had -nearly been lost. So we all fell to it, and tried to get a line -ashore.</p> - -<p>“There were men there now from the shore who had seen us. They were -watching us from above the breakers, and evidently understood what we -were doing. For when at last we flung the line into the water, they -rushed down and tried to get it. But the backwash carried it always -beyond their reach. One of them ran up to a cottage near-by and came -back with a jigger, and as the seas washed the rope along, tried to -fling it over, and hook the line. But they somehow couldn’t do it.</p> - -<p>“Then I suddenly saw there was a big dog with them, rushing up and -down, and barking as they tried for the line. All of a sudden, after -they seemed to have done their best and failed, the dog rushed down -into the sea, held the rope in his teeth till the tide ran out, and -then backed with it till the men grabbed it. They took the line up the -cliff, and I helped rig a chair on it in which we tied the passengers, -and so sent them every one ashore safely. No, I didn’t even get my -feet wet myself. You see I had my rubbers on. The baby? Oh, I tied the -baby up in a mail bag and sent him ashore by himself. They told me -when they opened the bag to see what was in it, the baby just smiled -at them, as if it had only been having a bit of a rock in the cradle -of the deep.</p> - -<div id='i002' class='mt01 mb01 wi002'> - <img src='images/illus-002.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> -<p class='caption'>After they seemed to have failed, the dog rushed down into the sea, held the rope in his teeth....</p> -</div> -<p>“We were home for Christmas after all. 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