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The sewing trades in many branches, cap-makers, straw-workers, book-folders and stitchers and lace-makers were among the trades represented. In Philadelphia the tailoresses in 1850 formed an industrial union. It maintained a coöperative tailoring shop, backed by the support of such coöperative advocates as George Lippard, John Shedden, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
It was about midnight that there was a stir in the cabin, and it appeared that Mr Shedden had the yellow fever, and shortly afterwards another white man, a sailor belonging to the schooner, then one of Mr Shedden's slaves. Well, there the fever stopped, no one else was taken ill, the usual remedies were applied, but before morning they were all three delirious.
"`How many? said the old woman, raising her head; `three! Then count the sharks which are coming up. "`Count the sharks, mother! why count them? There's plenty of them, replied Shedden, laughing. "`I tell you that there will be but three sent, replied the old woman who then sunk down her head and said no more.
They were becalmed as soon as they were clear of the islands; and, as it happened, some Mother Carey's chickens were flying about the stern. Shedden must needs get at his gun to shoot them. The old black woman sat near the taffrail; she saw him with his gun, but she said nothing. At last he fired, and killed three of them. "`There are three down! cried out some of the other passengers.
Again they went to bed, and just before one o'clock in the morning Mr Shedden, in his delirium, got out of his bed, and, rushing on the deck, jumped overboard before any one could prevent him; and old Etau, who never left where she sat, was heard to say, `One! and the bell was struck one by the sea man forward, who did not know what had happened.
She had a fine young fellow of the name of Shedden on board; and, besides other passengers, there was an old black woman, who, where she resided, had always been considered as an Obi woman. I saw her afterwards; and you never beheld such a complication of wrinkles as she was, from her forehead to her feet, and her woolly head was as white as snow.
At Petropaulski she met the Royal Thames Yacht Club schooner Mary Dawson, owned by Mr Shedden, who had come along the Chinese coast to Behring's Straits, also in search of Sir John Franklin.
But he is a friendly man, of rare judgment in literary works, and of talents that only fall a little short of genius. I would not see the rascal once a month to be as great a man as Mr. Shedden, or as sublime a genius as Mr.
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