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Title: Jim Spurling, Fisherman
or Making Good

Author: Albert Walter Tolman

Release Date: September 8, 2008 [eBook #26560]

Language: English

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JIM SPURLING, FISHERMAN

or Making Good

by

ALBERT W. TOLMAN

Illustrated

[Illustration: [See page 279

HE PLUNGED INTO THE SEA AND DRAGGED HIMSELF TOWARD THE ROCK TO WHICH HIS
FATHER WAS FASTENED]

[Illustration]

Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London

JIM SPURLING, FISHERMAN

Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

TO MY BOYS
ALBERT AND EDWARD

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. SMASHED UP 1
II. A FRESH START 18
III. TARPAULIN ISLAND 29
IV. MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS 41
V. GETTING READY 53
VI. TRAWLING FOR HAKE 66
VII. SHORTS AND COUNTERS 78
VIII. SALT-WATER GIPSIES 90
IX. FISTS AND FIREWORKS 102
X. REBELLION IN CAMP 114
XI. TURN OF THE TIDE 128
XII. PULLING TOGETHER 138
XIII. FOG-BOUND 150
XIV. SWORDFISHING 162
XV. MIDSUMMER DAYS 174
XVI. A LOST ALUMNUS