behenna

Updated: August 22, 2026

"The cap'n Cap'n Pendarves, your grandfather, sir, was, as you might say, short-handed, you being in foreign parts, and old John Behenna having slipped his cable 'long about the last o' May, as I was telling you; and so the cap'n he ups and ships these here and and, in fac', Mr. Nick, one of 'em's a woman!" He drew a long breath and wiped his forehead. "You don't mean he's married!"

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908