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Skau, when she was met by another boat, whose 

 skipper called out, " Lads, what are you going to do ? " 

 The answer was, " We are lying by for bait, then we 

 have to run in for the bread and lines ; after that we 

 will be fram (voyaging far), and may be as soon as 

 you." The other boat went out to sea, but ran short 

 of bait, so returned. But when they reached the 

 place where they had spoken their comrades, they 

 found the pieces of the boat, with her oars and mast, 

 lying strewn about the sea. When they came to the 

 fishing station they found the wives of the lost men 

 waiting, and were asked if they had "seen aught 0' 

 the new boat." Then they knew that the crew must 

 have perished, and the skipper said, " Gang hame, 

 jewels ; gane hame ta your bairns ; your lads '11 come 

 when they can, piir fellows ! " 



The same day a woman chanced to be near the 

 place where the boat had been launched, and there 

 she saw a bit of white wood floating in the surf. She 

 picked it up and found it was the hassen (board 

 adjoining the keel, to which the hinders of a boat are 

 attached) of the lost boat, and on this hassen lay the 

 skipper's snuff-horn. " There was no more of it but 

 sorrow till some days later, when some people saw the 

 six men who had been in the boat at the south end of 

 the island, near a well-known Trow-haunt. They 

 looked just as they had been in life, only for the kind 

 0' something in their faces that was no' just earthly 

 atagether. And often after that they were seen — 

 always the six of them — walking with their faces aye 



