Table of Contents:
  • The Cape Ann sloop
  • A morning's mail
  • Captain Brandt at the throttle
  • Among the blackfish and the tomcods
  • Aunty Bell's kitchen
  • A little dinner for five
  • Betty's first patient
  • The "heave ho" of Lonny Bowles
  • What the butcher saw
  • Strains from Bock's 'cello
  • Captain Joe's telebram
  • Captain Joe's creed
  • A shanty door Two envelopes
  • A narrow path
  • Under the willows
  • The song of the fire
  • The equinoctial gale
  • From the lantern deck
  • At the pines
  • The record of Nickles, the cook
  • After the battle
  • A broken draw
  • The swinging gate
  • Under the pitiless stars
  • Caleb trims his lights.