My world--and welcome to it by Thurber James 1894-1961

Author:Thurber, James, 1894-1961
Format: epub
Tags: American wit and humor
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1941-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

THE STORY OF SAILING

PEOPLE who visit you in Bermuda are likely to notice, even before they notice the flowers of the island, the scores of sailing craft which fleck the harbors and the ocean round about. Furthermore, they are likely to ask you about the ships before they ask you about the flowers and this, at least in my own case, is unfortunate, because although I know practically nothing about flowers I know ten times as much about flowers as I know about ships. Or at any rate I did before I began to study up on the subject. Now I feel that I am pretty well qualified to hold my own in any average discussion of rigging.

I began to brush up on the mysteries of sailing a boat after an unfortunate evening when a lady who sat next to me at dinner turned to me and said, "Do you reef in your gaff-topsails when you are close-hauled or do you let go the mizzen-top-bowlines and cross-jack-braces?" She took me for a sailor and not a landlubber and of course I hadn't the slightest idea what she was talking about.

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