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Show All Sailors Superstitious. All sailors are superstitious, but none is so completely under this in-, fluence as the old deep-sea fisherman. He puts the deepest faith in "signs" and omens of all kinds. Nothing would induce a skipper of the old school to sail on ; Friday. One intrepid unbeliever unbe-liever who dared to leave the docks at Grimsby, England, on a Good Friday was hooted through the lock gates by the scandalized populace. In spite of thus challenging the fates, however, he returned safely with ship and crew. |