Show ships that passed at sea samuel J elder the boston lawyer relates this story of a dialogue between the skippers of two vessels which met at sea what ship Is thata roared the skipper of a little gloucester schooner hailing a great full rigged ship reindeer calcutta to boston was the answer from the captain of the big ship who are you schooner dart from gloucester answered the schooner s skipper how long you aup one hundred fourteen days was the answer how long you outa all night returned the gloucester man and he put his helm to port and scurried off to meet the rising dawn |