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    Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea
    Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea
    Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea
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    Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea

    By Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Ober

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea

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      Out of the Fog - Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Ober

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      Title: Out of the Fog

      Author: C. K. Ober

      Posting Date: August 19, 2012 [EBook #7957]

      Release Date: April, 2005

      First Posted: June 5, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUT OF THE FOG ***

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      OUT OF THE FOG

      A Story of the Sea

      C. K. OBER

      Introduction By Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell

      FOREWORD

      Since I am permitted to consider myself in some way responsible for this narrative's being put on record, it is with the very heartiest good will that I accept the publishers' kind invitation to write a brief foreword to it.

      I have, during twenty years, been working against a problem that I recognized called for all--yes, and more, than--I had to give it. For I have been endeavoring, through my own imperfect attainments, to translate into undeniable language on the Labrador Coast, the message of God's personal fatherhood over and love for the humblest of His creatures. During these years, often of overwork, I have considered it worth while to lay aside time and energy and strength to improve the charting and pilot directions of our devious and sometimes dangerous waterways.

      How much more gladly shall I naturally avail myself of any chance by which to contribute to the knowledge of that seemingly ever evasive pathway leading to that which to me is the supreme motive power of human life--faith in the divine Redeemer and Master. The best helps to reach the haven we are in search of, over the unblazed trails of Labrador, are ever the tracks of those who have found the way before us. Just such to me is this simple and delightful story of Mr. Ober's. It has my most hearty prayers for its unprecedented circulation.

      WILFRED T. GRENFELL.

      OLD SALTS

      The lure of the sea prevailed, and at nineteen I shipped for a four-months' fishing trip on the Newfoundland Banks. These banks are not the kind that slope toward some gentle stream where the weary fisherman can rest between bites, protected from the sun by the shade of an overhanging tree; they are thirty to forty fathoms beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles out from the Massachusetts coast.

      The life that had long appealed to my imagination now came in with a shock and a realism that was in part a disillusionment and in part an intense satisfaction of some of my primal instincts and cravings. Old salts are more picturesque and companionable spinning yarns about the stove in a shoemaker's shop than they are when one is obliged to live, eat and sleep with them for four months in the crowded forecastle of a fishing schooner. An ocean storm is a sublime spectacle, witnessed from a position of safety on the land; but a storm on the ocean, experienced in its very vortex from the deck of a tiny fishing boat, is thrilling beyond description. Ships that pass in the night make interesting reading; but if they pass near you, in a foggy night, on the Banks, they are better than the muezzin of the Moslem in reminding a man that it is time to pray. I recall with vividness the scene on such a night, and still feel the compelling power of the panic in the voice of the mild-mannered old sea dog on anchor watch, as he yelled down the companionway, All hands on deck. In six seconds we were all there; and there was the great hulk of a two-thousand-ton ship looming up out of the night. She had evidently sighted our little craft just in time to change her

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