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Updated: May 22, 2025
My long experience with tramps and beach-combers was at fault. No words can convey an idea of the pathos and humility he threw into his tone and actions.
I don't propose to be plundered of $150,000 if I can help it." "Wassa dat?" demanded Charlie. "Hunder fiftee tlousand you hab got?" "I did have it we had it, the mate and I. We triced a sperm whale for the beach-combers, and when they thought they had everything out of him we found a lump of ambergris in him that will weigh close to two hundred pounds. Now look here, Charlie.
You have no idea how different you are to the kind of girl I've known. Imagine my kind of girl standing up before Hoang and those cutthroat beach-combers with their knives and hatchets. Maybe it's because you are so unlike my kind of girl that that things are as they are with me. I don't know. It's a queer situation.
Au revoir and happy dreams." The beach-combers of Papeete The consuls tell their troubles A bogus lord The American boot-blacks The cowboy in the hospital Ormsby, the supercargo The death of Tahia The Christchurch Kid The Nature men Ivan Stroganoff's desire for a new gland. I played badminton some afternoons at the British consulate.
The "Bertha Millner's" crew, in a long line, Moran at one end, Wilbur at the other, and Charlie in the centre, came on toward the beach-combers, step by step. There was little outcry. Each contestant singled out his enemy, and made slowly for him with eyes fixed and weapon ready, regardless of the movements of his mates.
Barefoot, and as dirty as could be, his shirt-tail out on one side and flapping in the wind, his breast exposed to the sea-air and as tanned and red as the bust of a statue of mud, he was the admiration of a crowd of little beach-combers, who had gathered round, hardly a stitch on their bronzed limbs, so lean and bony from a life-long diet of salt fish. But what a catch the Rector had made!
"Let us sing and make merry, For we journey over the sea!" It was the Himene Tatou Arearea. Kelly, the wandering I.W.W., self-acclaimed delegate of the mythical Union of Beach-combers and Stowaways, was at the valves of the accordeon, and about him squatted a ring of joyous natives. "Wela ka hao! Hot stuff!" they shouted.
At last I arose from my bunk and said that we were tired and had come there to sleep, and with an ill grace the playing was shortly abandoned and the natives went off. The arctic shores have their beach-combers as well as the South Sea Islands.
Throughout all the afternoon the Captain had been drinking the whiskey from the decanter found in the cabin; now he stood up unsteadily, and, raising his glass, exclaimed: "Sonny, here's to Kitchell, Wilbur & Co., beach-combers, unlimited. What do you say, hey?" "I only want to be sure that we've a right to the bark," answered Wilbur. "Right to her ri-hight to 'er," hiccoughed the Captain.
Waiting till some such vessel as this was swept ashore, they would swoop down on it, harry and slay the men, carry the women and children off for slaves, break up the ship and take the wood and stores for fire and food. They were beach-combers. An extra swing of the tide, a great wave and with a thud the ship was aground, stuck fast on the yielding sands.
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