{"product_id":"2940013415805","title":"KINDRED OF THE DUST","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the living-room of The Dreamerie, his home on Tyee Head, Hector\u003cbr\u003eMcKaye, owner of the Tyee Lumber Company and familiarly known as \"The\u003cbr\u003eLaird,\" was wont to sit in his hours of leisure, smoking and building\u003cbr\u003ecastles in Spain--for his son Donald. Here he planned the acquisition\u003cbr\u003eof more timber and the installation of an electric-light plant to\u003cbr\u003efurnish light, heat, and power to his own town of Port Agnew; ever and\u003cbr\u003eanon he would gaze through the plate-glass windows out to sea and\u003cbr\u003ewatch for his ships to come home. Whenever The Laird put his dreams\u003cbr\u003ebehind him, he always looked seaward. In the course of time, his\u003cbr\u003ehome-bound skippers, sighting the white house on the headland and\u003cbr\u003eknowing that The Laird was apt to be up there watching, formed the\u003cbr\u003ehabit of doing something that pleased their owner mightily. When the\u003cbr\u003enorthwest trades held steady and true, and while the tide was still at\u003cbr\u003ethe flood, they would scorn the services of the tug that went out to\u003cbr\u003emeet them and come ramping into the bight, all their white sails set\u003cbr\u003eand the glory of the sun upon them; as they swept past, far below The\u003cbr\u003eLaird, they would dip his house-flag--a burgee, scarlet-edged, with a\u003cbr\u003efir tree embroidered in green on a field of white--the symbol to the\u003cbr\u003eworld that here was a McKaye ship. And when the house-flag fluttered\u003cbr\u003ehalf-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of\u003cbr\u003eHector McKaye would thrill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Guid lads! My bonny brave lads!\" he would murmur aloud, with just a\u003cbr\u003etouch of his parents' accent, and press a button which discharged an\u003cbr\u003eancient brass cannon mounted at the edge of the cliff. Whenever he saw\u003cbr\u003eone of his ships in the offing--and he could identify his ships as far\u003cbr\u003eas he could see them--he ordered the gardener to load this cannon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresently the masters began to dip the house-flag when outward bound,\u003cbr\u003eand discovered that, whether The Laird sat at his desk in the mill\u003cbr\u003eoffice or watched from the cliff, they drew an answering salute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was their hail and farewell.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082795041008,"sku":"2940013415805","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013415805_p0.jpg?v=1763580951","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013415805","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}