name, a clumsy-looking country boy,
uggs discount mastered, I imagine, by the spirit of adventure, and
making his first voyage. In the light, baffling airs, the schooner has been tacking about a
great deal, at which times the sails pass from one side to the other, and a man is sent aloft
to shift over the fore-gaff topsail. In some way, when Harrison was aloft, the sheet
jammed in
discount uggs for women the block through which it runs at the end of the gaff. As I understood it, there
were two ways of getting it cleared- first, by lowering the foresail, which was comparatively
easy and without danger; and, second, by climbing out on the peak-halyards to the end of the
gaff itself, a very hazardous performance. Johansen called
discount uggs for women out to Harrison to go out on
the halyards. It was patent to everybody that the boy was afraid. And well he might be,
eighty feet above the deck, to trust himself on those thin and jerking ropes. Had there been
a steady breeze it would not have been so bad, but the Ghost was rolling
discount ugg boots emptily in a long
sea, and with each roll the canvas flapped and boomed and the halyards slacked and jerked
taut. They were capable of snapping a man off like a fly from a whiplash. Harrison heard
the order and understood what was demanded of him, but hesitated. It was probably the first
time in his life
ugg boots discount outlet he had been aloft. Johansen, who had caught the contagion of Wolf Larsen's
masterfulness, burst out with a volley of abuse and curses. 'That'll do, Johansen!' Wolf
Larsen said brusquely. 'I'll have you know that I do the swearing on this ship. If I need
your assistance, I'll call you in.' 'Yes, sir,' the mate acknowledged
submissively. In the
cheap uggs online meantime Harrison had started out on the halyards.
I was looking up from the galley door, and I could see him trembling in every limb as with
ague. He proceeded very slowly and cautiously, an inch at a time. Outlined against the clear
