Wide Courses

Maybe some things - comforts, refinements - I might 'a' practised myself in, got used to 'em like, but could I see in those early days that I'd ever have a grand home - me who'd been cast away at fourteen - even if I'd had time? It was to be able to do without comforts - to make a pleasure out 0' hardship - that meant success almost as much as knowin' the business. And I did know my business in those days - or people lied a lot. And it always meant more to me - the name Of bein' the great wrecker - than all the money I made, and in those last few years I made plenty Of it - I did that. Me who once slaved for six dollars a month as boy in a Bangor coaster. And I mind how I used to look back and say - or was it some body tellin' me -that 'twas a great day for me and mine when the old lumber schooner wrecked herself on Peaked Hill Bar - because when she was hove down I was hove into a bigger world. Once in my pride I used to cherish praise like that - but sometimes now I'm not so sure.

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