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men who employ them a fair margin of profit. 

 If the market should advance, the workmen 

 will doubtless demand more, and if it should 

 recede, I think they are sensible enough to be 

 willing to take less rather than be idle. Dan- 

 bury appears to have solved the great question 

 of capital and labor. 



Every old sailor knows that a southeasterly 

 gale is most likely to expend its fury and to be 

 succeeded by a brisk nor'wester either at eight 

 o'clock in the evening, at midnight, or at noon. 

 When coming on to the coast, appearances are 

 closely watched at these hours. If there 

 should be a sudden lull, then is the time with- 

 out a moment's delay to haul up the courses 

 and to stand by the braces. In an instant the 

 head sails are taken aback, and a lively crew 

 will swing around the after yards. The main- 

 topsail fills, and as the ship's head pays off, the 

 head yards in their turn are swung, and the 

 ship lies close to the wind, which comes rush- 

 ing back from the cold north-west. 



When this change occurs at noon, there can- 

 not be anything more grand and beautiful than 

 the scene. The clouds of snow or rain that had 

 been driving everything before them in their 

 fury, are driven back upon themselves and 



