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One ambitious man hazards his opinion (and he is one who ought to

know) that a fishing schooner has done her eighteen knots or

upward for numerous individual hours, for fishermen, even on

record passages, fail to haul the log sometimes for half a day at

a time.

Schofield, however, took occasion to have the log hauled for one

especially squally mile, and the figures showed that the Lass had

covered fifteen knots in the hour--seventeen and a half land

miles.

She was booming along now, seeming to leap from one great crest

to the next like a giant projectile driven by some irresistible

force. She was canted at such an angle that her lee rail was

invisible under the boiling white, and her deck planks seemed a

part of the sea.