FISHERMEN'S MEMORIAL AND RECORD BOOK. 



HI 



" All my baby-sewing finished, I am knitting, 



only knitting, 

 For ho IOTCS to find me Idlo-Uke when com- 



Ing homo from sea ; 



Tho ilnglo toll I look for** a long time incom- 

 ing; 



Dut a dny without my needle IB a weary one 

 tome." 



All the apple bloom* are fallen and the Idle 



bee* are dreaming, 

 And deserted Is the orchard by the sall-for- 



oaken sea ; 

 Tho only ship she looked for U anchored In the 



harbor, 

 And a sailor ilu at supper with a happy 



Tht Independent. 



SKIPPER CHARLEY OF GLOUCESTER TOWN. 



BT OCOROE H. PROCTER. 



Don't you know skipper Charley, of Glouces- 

 ter town, 



A jolly old fellow of upwards fourscore, 

 Whose snug little cot, weather-beaten and 



brown, 



Stands at Eastern Point, close down by the 

 hot* I 



Skipper Charlie's first trip was In eighteen 



two, 



In the jigger" lantha," which for those times 

 Was a crack Uttlo craft; and he will tell you, 

 Ho was ten years old when he first pulled the 

 lines. 



