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MOTHER-IN-LAW TO THE CREW.
ONE OF THE OLD SAILOR'S YARNS.
BY W. J. HENDERSON.
It was a beautiful summer morning. There was a light wind from thesouthwest, which just tempered to a degree of endurance the blazing heatof the full-orbed sun. A few wisps of feathery white lay slantwiseacross the broad field of deep-toned blue sky, promising a change ofweather within a day's time. The sea was a vast undulating mirror ofblue, as if all the sapphires in the world and in all the other worldshad been melted and poured into earth's majestic basin. From the roundedslopes of the broad low swells the rays of the sun danced in a millionflashes of dazzling silver. The swells themselves ran in slow, sinuousfolds to the inner bar, where they reared themselves in curving walls oftranslucent green shot with bars of snow, and then with the burst offar-off thunder fell forward into spurting, writhing acres of ye