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Jack had, while pulling up a third story 

 window awning before the storm should 

 break, and perhaps tear it into ribbons. 

 The angry sea had changed to the wind- 

 tossed rye field, and the spray to the flying 

 dust from the turnpike, while the only thing 

 real is the wood and Jack himself, whose 

 head is always filled with dreams of the sea. 

 The slippery spars are the now wet window 

 sill, and the mast, which he is now rapidly 

 descending, has changed to the steep 

 bannisters. 



"Come down, me hearty," cries Bridget 



from below, "sure Oi've a noice hot supper 

 for yez down here, and yer mamma's been 

 axin' for ye this half hour." 



With a sigh of regret, " sailor " Jack enters 

 the dining room, exchanging for a hot 

 "rainy night" supper, his delightful visions 



of 



"A wet sheet and a flowing sea, 

 And a wind that follows fast." 



The initial cut represents Jack as he pic- 

 tures himself to himself. In the central 

 cut he is represented as others see him. 



Thistle. 



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