There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th.

But I think it's just the holiday period.

It's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

Chapter 96.

The Try Works

Besides her hoisted boats, an American whalers outwardly distinguished by her try works.

She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry, joining with oak and hemp,

in constituting the completed ship.

It is as if from the open field a brick kiln were transported to her planks.

The try works are planted between the foremasth and main mast, the most roomy part of the deck.

The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitages to sustain the weight of an almost

solid mass of brick and mortar, some 10 feet by 8 square and 5 in height.

The foundation does not penetrate the deck, but the masonry is firmly secured to the surface

by ponderous knees of iron, bracing it on all sides and screwing it down to the timbers.

From the flanks it is cased with wood, and at top completely covered by a large sloping

battened hatch white.

Removing this hatch we expose the great tripods to a number in each of several barrels capacity.

When not in use they are kept remarkably clean.

Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand till they shine within like silver

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