Captain Scraggs or the Green-Pea Pirates (Classic Reprint)

The Green-P ea Pirates CHAPTER I THEY had seen the fog rolling down the coast shortly after the Maggie had rounded Pilar Point at sunset and headed north. Captain Scraggs has been steamboating too many unprofitable years on San Francisco Bay, the Suisun and San Pablo sloughs and dogholes and the Sacramento River to be deceived as to the character of that fog, and he remarked as much to Mr. Gibney. We dbetter turn back to Half moon Bay and tie up at the dock, he added. Calamity howler! retorted Mr. Gibney and gave the wheel a spoke or two. Scraggsy, you re enough to make a real sailor sick at the stomach. But I tell you shes a tule fog, Gib. She rises up in the marshes of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, drifts down to the bay and out the Golden Gate and just naturally blocks the wheels of commerce while she lasts. Why, Ive known the ferry boats between San Francisco and Oakland to get lost for hours on their twenty-minute run and all along of a blasted tule fog. I dont doubt your word a mite, Scraggsy. I never did see a ferry-boat skipper that knew shucks about sailorizing, the imperturbable Gibney responded. Me, Ill smell my way home in any tule fog.
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