Drifting 



causing but the poor fellow was really vomiting blood and literally 

 couldn't do anything about it. Not, that is, until about half past 

 five in the morning when the swell had lengthened a bit. Then, 

 to everybody's surprise, though not a word was said, he returned 

 to the deck and worked like a man possessed. Jan, especially, 

 admired him for it. He had seen many men shrink all duties on a 

 three week trawler trip after much slighter, though severe, 

 attacks of sea-sickness. His admiration was the beginning of a 

 friendship and his friendship opened a new career. For the first 

 time he found out how easy it was to gain admission to a Scottish 

 Universit)'. With that money and what he had saved, there was 

 enough to keep him, though somewhat meagrely, during the four 

 years he intended to spend at Glasgow University. But, before 

 the term began there in October, he wanted one last fling at the 

 sea. He wanted to try the method that, of all fishing methods, 

 gained for its practitioners the highest social prestige. 



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