IV CONTENTS. 



XX. — Remarkable Escapes of Schooners Onward and Seddie C. Pyle on 

 Georges — Loss of Schooners A.R.Andrews, and Rescue of her Crew — 

 Lost in the Fog — Rescued from tlie Jaws of Death — Comprising the 



Details of Karrow Escapes by the Fisliermcn 98 



XXI. — The Pirate Tacony's Raid upon the Fishermen .... 105 

 XXII. —A Valuable Branch of Industry 107 



XXIII. — Recapture of Schooner E. A. Horton from the Custody of the 

 Dominion Government — A Daring Act by a Yankee Skipper and his 

 Crew 108 



XXIV. — The Severe Storm of 1839 115 



XXV. — Fishermen's children Playing on the Beach 117 



XXVL — The Cape Ann Fishermen of To-Day 119 



XXVII. — How Harry G. came to Sign the Pledge 123 



XXVIII. — Picking the Nets and Trawls, in which we find a good haul of 

 Sketches, Incidents and Facts, relative to the Fisherman and his Occu- 

 pation 125 



XXIX. — Dashings of Spray from Wavelets of Maritime Poetry by Home 

 Authors 129 



XXX. — A Musical Fisherman — His First Violin — Early Struggles — His 

 Cruise in The Rival — Shipwrecked Yankee Fishermen Giving Con- 

 certs in the Provinces .......... 149 



XXXI. — Loss of Schooner Neptune's Bride — Two of the Crew saved — 



Eighteen hours on the Mast-Head — A Perilous Passage . . . 153 

 XXXII. — Leaves from the Log Book of Captain James Pattillo — How He 

 served a Dominion OflScer who Boarded the Schooner Abigail — Puts 

 to Sea in the Teeth of a Gale and outsails the Cutter — How he gets a 

 load of Herring for Schooner Tiger — A Fearful Time on Georges in 



Schooner Alexander 156 



XXXIII. — "Here comes Father's Vessc-l" 164 



XXXIV. — Appendix 166 



XXXV. — The Terrible Gale of Sunday, August 24th, 1873, List of the 



Lost Men and Vessels 167 



XXXVI. — Sum Total of Losses for the past Forty-three Years . . . 172 



