402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
The History of Literature
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The Captain of a Small Boat
Many a man ought to have a bath tub larger than the boat which here rowed upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth top was a problem in small boat navigation. The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from the ocean. Often he said, god, that was a narrow clip. As he remarked it, he invariably gazed eastward over the broken sea. And this captain had on him the stern impression of a scene in the grays of dawn, of seven turned faces, and later, a stump of a topmast with a white ball on
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