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Show SAILOR TELLS OF HARDSHIPS. Have Good Reason to Dread "Round-lno "Round-lno the Horn." "Sailing ship life lj tho hardcat ot all," said tho first ofllcer of a liner. "I lived on sailing ships till two jeara ago "Onco wo wero lufi days in sailing from Liverpool to Trlsco. It took eight weeks to round tho Horn eight weeks of snow and hall and Icy winds. Night after night wo sailors, turning In, took off our soaking underclothes, wrung the water out of them, and then slept with them under our pillows, pil-lows, so that, when wo came to put them on In tho morning, tl.ey would bo warm. "Somet'mcs we would spend flvo hours aloft trying to reef one sail a sail frozen so stiff, so boardlllte, that It would be Impossible to inako a wrinkle In It. "Handling these wet and frozen sails and ropes, our hands split. These cracks, which would not heal, aro called 'sea cuts ' They aro a sailor's bane." Los Angeles Times. |