If you're working on a budget, finding a thoughtful Kris Kringle can bring on a headache … or two.

Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.

… but these details I am compelled by exigencies of space to hold over until next month.

all of them accustoming , once in the year , to take their kind of the fresh water