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Show Heritage From the Old Day. The old traditions of the sea prevail. pre-vail. Meal time Is not ft conversational conversa-tional tea. At the captain's table It is not proper even to talk unless the Old Man speaks first. The mate always al-ways removes his cap and knocks before be-fore entering the master's quarters. If standing to windward on tha poop when the captain comes oo deck the mate promptly moves to leeward, so the Old Man will get the breeze uucontamlnated. Laugh ' If you will, but the hand of s schooner captain Is Iron and the old niceties still prevail. What sort of men sail on schooners? schoon-ers? All sorts. Crews are sometimes negro or brown-skinned, with agile little men from West Indian islands, is-lands, ruled by white officers, of course. More often they are Norwegian-born, Swedish-born, Danish-born, Danish-born, German-born, Russinn-born sailors sail-ors of the old school. Most of them ' are citizens now, but few schooner men were born under the United States flag. |