Fiction · 1916
Blow the Man Down
A Romance of the Coast
Captain Boyd Mayo skippers the yacht Olenia for Wall Street magnate Julius Marston and falls for Marston's daughter, Alma — a match her father has no intention of allowing, having already chosen Arthur Beveridge for her. Along the Maine coast, a schooner captain named Candage hauls his own reluctant daughter, Polly, off on a coastwise voyage, and Mayo slowly realizes which woman he actually wants.
Holman Day, a Maine journalist known for his novels of the state's coast and woods, published Blow the Man Down: A Romance of the Coast with Harper & Brothers in 1916.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- I — Captain Boyd Mayo Gets Out of Soundings
- II — Then Captain Mayo Sees Shoals
- III — The Tavern of the Seas
- IV — Over the “Polly’s” Rail
- V — On the Bridge of Yacht “Olenia”
- VI — And We Sailed
- VII — Into the Mess from Eastward
- VIII — Like Bugs Under a Thimble
- IX — A Man’s Job
- X — Hospitality, Per Julius Marston
- XI — A Voice from Hue and Cry
- XII — No Place Por the Soles Op Their Feet
- XIII — A Captain Op Human Flotsam
- XIV — Bearings for a New Course
- XV — The Rules of the Road
- XVI — Millions and a Mite
- XVII — “Exactly!” Said Mr. Fogg
- XVIII — How an Annual Meeting Was Held—Once!
- XIX — The Prize Package from Mr. Fogg
- XX — Testing Out a Man
- XXI — Bitter Proof by Morning Light
- XXII — Special Business of a Passenger
- XXIII — The Monster That Slipped Its Leash
- XXIV — Down a Galloping Sea
- XXV — A Girl and Her Debt of Honor
- XXVI — The Fangs of Old Razee
- XXVII — The Tempest Turns Its Card
- XXVIII — Girl’s Help and Man’s Work
- XXIX — The Toilers of Old Razee
- XXX — The Matter Op a Monogram in Wax
- XXXI — The Big Fellow Himself
- XXXII — A Girl’s Dear “Because!”
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About the author
1865–1935 · Modern
Holman Day (1865–1935) was born in Vassalboro, Maine, and graduated from Colby College in 1887. He spent years as a Maine newspaperman, editing the Dexter Gazette and later serving as managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun, before turning fully to fiction. He drew on the state's lumber camps and coastal towns for King Spruce (1908), Blow the Man Down (1916) and The Landloper (1918), and in his later years worked in Hollywood as a scenario writer, adapting his own novels for the screen. A prolific author of more than twenty-five books, he also wrote verse in Maine dialect. He died at sixty-nine in Mill Valley, California.
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