"That is an uncommonly pretty trading schooner, Bertha," Frank Mallett said, as he rose from his chair to get a better look at a craft that was passing along to the eastward.

"I suppose she must be in the fruit trade, and must just have arrived from the Levant.
I should not be surprised if she had been a yacht at one time.

She is not carrying much sail, but she is going along fast.

I think they would have done better if they had rigged her as a fore-and-aft schooner instead of putting those heavy yards on the foremast.

That broad band of white round her spoils her appearance; her jib boom is unusually long, and she must carry a tremendous spread of canvas in light winds.