November, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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everywhere. What had caused this con¬ 
dition on a perfectly calm day? No one 
can answer the question. Just one of the 
idiosyncrasies of the sea. Perhaps some 
mighty convulsion of volcano or earth¬ 
quake had set the water in a troubled 
frame, and we were pigmies in a cockle¬ 
shell, a plaything of the waves. 
T HE lifeguards on the beach had no¬ 
ticed our predicament and were pre¬ 
paring to give us assistance, but to 
launch a boat from the beach was a mad 
project at best, if indeed it was at all pos¬ 
sible. At this point the fine qualities of 
this trained surfman showed to great ad¬ 
vantage. Running our boat back of the 
bar just at a safe distance from the dash¬ 
ing spray, in ever narrowing circles with 
engine at full speed, his eye taking in 
every current between us and the beach, 
he was a statue of sublimity if not of 
beauty. He posted me with one foot on 
the gunwale of the boat, his injunction be¬ 
ing, When 1 say go, jump; no matter 
where we are, or what you may think; it 
may be that luck may fail us, but it is our 
only chance, as the boat most likely will 
pitchpoll’ or turn over, not sideways, but 
endways between the bar and beach, so 
when w r e go over the bar hold tight, but 
when I holler, jump, do it quick.” 
I will always remember vividly the thrill 
as the whirring engine drove the craft into 
that maelstrom of waters when he decided 
the proper moment had come to make the 
endeavor. There was a blinding smother 
of foam. A dim recollection of some¬ 
thing under my feet which was standing 
on end one second, the next rolling on its 
side and at last the command, “Go.” There 
was water all around when I leaped, but 
the momentum carried me away forward. 
I struck firmly on the sand. The next 
second a curling wave struck me, sending 
me headlong into the brawny arms of a 
lifeguard. My companion stuck to the 
boat and was landed high and dry, although 
badly shaken up. 
Had the trip ended fatally for either of 
us the fisherfolk would have had another 
legend of the warning of the “old man of 
the sea” which, while uncanny and not 
well to be described, is of course a result 
of some natural cause produced by action 
of the atmosphere when the water is at a 
pitch of excitement not yet to be observed. 
But it apparently comes from nowhere, 
and yet is all around and about you at the 
same instant. 
I F something of the unnatural is mixed 
up in their ideas of deep sea affairs, 
not so with their views of wind and 
weather, for the seafarer who cannot tell 
you to a nicety as to the weather to-mor¬ 
row is not to be found. Wind directions 
and weather conditions are read at least 
twelve hours for the future by present 
signs. To them “Mackerel skies” and 
“Mare’stail clouds” are as readable as a 
child’s book, in relation to the winds of 
the morrow; while sunset glows, and sun¬ 
rise reflections, harbinger coming dry or 
wet weather. So into infinitude might be 
carried the lore of sea folk, much of it 
just handed down from time to time, and 
much of it, again, smacking of the most 
profound accuracy which might only be 
learned by long association with the 
mighty, mysterious deep. 
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