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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                 186
  XVII.   BLOWN OFF                      198
  XVIII.  BUOY OR BREAKER                208
  XIX.    ON THE WHISTLER                221
  XX.     SQUARING AN ACCOUNT            233
  XXI.    OLD FRIENDS                    243
  XXII.   PERCY SCORES                   255
  XXIII.  WHITTINGTON GRIT               269
  XXIV.   CROSSING THE TAPE              283




ILLUSTRATIONS


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

THE CAMP AT SPROWL'S COVE                           _Facing p._   56

LEANING AGAINST THE MAST-HOOP THAT ENCIRCLED
HIS WAIST, HE LIFTED THE LONG LANCE AND
POISED IT FOR THE BLOW                                  "        166

KNEES BRACED TIGHTLY AGAINST THE SIDES OF THE
STERN, HANDS LOCKED ROUND THE STOUT BUTT
OF THE LANCE, HE FOILED RUSH AFTER RUSH OF
THE BLACK-FINNED, WHITE-BELLIED PIRATES                 "        172

THEY STOOD CLOSE TOGETHER ON THE CIRCULAR TOP,
HOLDING ON TO THE CROSSED BAILS, WAIST-HIGH             "        222

"WE NEED THAT SLOOP AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
HER!"                                                   "        252




JIM SPURLING, FISHERMAN




JIM SPURLING
FISHERMAN




I

SMASHED UP


"Here comes J. P. Whittington, Junior, Esquire, in his new Norman! Some
speed--what?"

The three Graffam Academy seniors, Jim Spurling, Roger Lane, and
Winthrop Stevens, who were sitting on the low, wooden fence before the
campus, earnestly discussing the one thing that had engrossed their
minds for the past two weeks, stopped talking and leaned forward.

On the broad, elm-lined street beyond the Mall suddenly appeared a cloud
of dust, out of which shot a gray automobile. Its high speed soon
brought it to the