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By Jack Joseph Smith

SAIL Keeping sheet and tact as a jibe i guess Not a supposition I see you standing right Browns on white I suppose as a painting out of the eighthundreds in the wonder of what is fresh yet so old yea proud and illis trative get's me to know someone on this level yet directly as a friend not too many more times please and be careful as a salor is always not

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This 'SAIL' fragment turns sheet, tack, jibe, painting, age, and friendship into a brief caution about care and restraint.

The verified page reads like advice filtered through maritime and visual-art language. Its odd spellings and the crossed-out Browns keep the draft quality visible.

Claude

'SAIL' braids sailing terms ('Keeping sheet and tact as a jibe') with the look of an old painting, 'Browns on white I suppose as a painting / out of the eighthundreds.' The wonder of meeting someone 'on this level' as a friend ends in a sailor's caution: 'not / too many more times please and be / careful as a salor is always not.'