A Trick is a nautical term:
“a full watch at the helm.”
An excerpt from the beautiful poem
“Sea Fever” by John Masefield follows.
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“I must go down to the
seas again, to the vagrant gypsy
life, To the gull’s way and
the whale’s way where the wind’s
like a whetted knife; And all
I ask is a merry yarn
from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet
sleep and a sweet dream when
the long trick’s over.” ~ Fourth Stanza
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Photo Credit below:
http://www.completely-coastal.com/2012/09/pumpkin-carving-ideas-free-templates.html
Josephina Ballerina 
always an education 🙂 I’m not too into scary stuff so like that set of carvings, and the poem too. There is something magical about the sea shore. Hope it’s more treat than trick for you today.
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Lovely carvings and the poem too, I remember that from years ago
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Great pumpkins!
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Excellent! And gives new insight into “turing a trick”
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So creative! {as usual!!}
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Great photo and that is one of my favorite poems – thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for helping me to learn something new today. (now, can you help me remember it?)
Lovely pumpkins! Great setting, too.
Hope your day is a treat!
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Very pretty photo – my Grandfather was a commercial fisherman and went out to sea for 10 days at a time out of Boston Harbor. He would have loved this… Happy Halloween! xo Karen
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Those are cool pumpkins…almost makes me want to carve ours…but so far I’ve been distracting the kids–I don’t have the energy! Happy Halloween!
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Those are very cool nautical scenes in the pumpkins. And I love how they are sitting on the boardwalk overlooking the lake. I’ve never heard that poem before. Very nice! Happy Halloween!
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where’s your pumpkin??? so i like your switch up today, very clever of you!!!!
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Beautiful poem indeed 🙂
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Purr & wiggle Josephine, this is a long one 🙂
Hi Maureen & J of course.
Catching up with you today. First of all thanks for the lovely comments on my blog, you make me smile ☺ I forgot to put your new address in to my Feedly so this morning when I got to you ….. no posts eek. But of course a little poking around did the trick (oooh! 6 words!)
That moth is very beautiful even though I can’t bear even to look at them irl. Or toads actually! I had forgotten all the lovely things, gifts and the like that a cat will bring to you.
Dogs, on the other hand, they bring muddy paws, sick & pee into the house onto the new rug. Well you don’t want to hang around on an old stained bit of carpet now do you? And isn’t that why they put the lovely new longish pile, pale colour rug down?
Love all your six words and the wordless Wednesday! I have a picture just like that. I’ll share it with you. (not on Google + of course.)
Stress reduction kit: I’ll send you something similar. It will make you smile.
What a contrast in the two weddings…
Brilliant six words Trip, Late, Drink, Trick and clever leaving Leaves.
I’m very fond of fungi both to eat (but only supermarket varieties!) and to photograph.
I have to go to the dentist now, you & your posts kept my mind beautifully occupied for a while…Thanks.
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