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Chief trappers are experts and bureaucrats, says Thurber, and gives some examples. Once he tried his hand at sailing and a Bermuda lady-expert promptly asked: "Do you reef in your gaff-topsails when you are close-hauled or do you let go the mizzentop-bowlines and crossjack-braces?" Author Thurber did not know, partly because he just sailed for the hell of it, partly because the lady was so nautical that what she really said was: "Do you reef in your gassles when you are cold or do you let go the mittens and crabapples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World on All Fours | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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