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Ruby," said Forsyth, "I thought it would have killed your old mother when she was told of your bein' caught by them sea-sharks, and taken off to the wars. You must know I came to see a good deal of your friends, through through hoot! what's the name? the fair-haired lass that lives with " "Minnie?" suggested Ruby, who could not but wonder that any man living should forget her name for a moment.
As victims of ill-made, badly-found, and rotten vessels, not to speak of land-sharks and sea-sharks as the sufferers in life and limb when shippers and brokers may be actually benefiting from casualties sailors, as a class, merit public sympathy instead of reproach or discouragement.
"And a quick fist," the other snapped in. "And a ready tongue." "Need it in my business. No gettin' 'long without it among you sea-sharks. Pirate, am I? And you with a thousand passengers packed like sardines! Charge 'em double first-class passage, feed 'em steerage grub, and bunk 'em worse 'n pigs! Pirate, eh! Me?" A red-faced man thrust his head over the rail above and began to bellow lustily.
Well, grin away, lad! perhaps you haven't got any children. But you have, sir: and you know how it is with us fathers; our hearts are so full of the little darlings, out it must come. You can understand how joyful I feel at saving their fortune from land-sharks and sea-sharks, and landing it safe in an honest man's hands like you and your father before you." Skinner handed him the receipt.
Ruby," said Forsyth, "I thought it would have killed your old mother when she was told of your bein' caught by them sea-sharks, and taken off to the wars. You must know I came to see a good deal of your friends, through through hoot! what's the name? the fair-haired lass that lives with " "Minnie?" suggested Ruby, who could not but wonder that any man living should forget her name for a moment.
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