Excerpt from Blue Water: A Tale of the Deep Sea Fishermen

The broad waters of the Bay of Fundy shimmered as a vast steel-blue expanse in the glare of the hot June sun and merged into the azure of the cloudless sky with but a streak of faint mistiness at the horizon. Apparently oblivious of the heat and the exertion, two barefooted boys ran down the dusty Bay Shore road and threw themselves upon a patch of bush-shaded grass fringing the highway. The older of the pair, a stocky, sandy-haired youngster endowed with all the aggressive cocksure manner which goes with twelve years of earthly existence, was the first to speak.

"Got th' pipe, Lem?"

"Yep!" replied the younger boy, wiping his face with the sleeve of his blouse.


"Here's th' terbacker. Gimme a knife an' I'll cut it up."

Lem fished in his pocket and handed over the article called for.

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