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The stables were crowded with bunks and men like a cattleship forecastle.
Here is the Custom House, and the conversation that shines is full of freightage and dock dues; here are the shops that sell nothing but oilskins, sextants, and parrots, and here the taverns do a mighty trade in rum. It was in this quarter, for a brief sweet time, that Love and Beauty made their strange home, as though a pair of halcyons should choose to nest in the masthead of a cattleship.
"You cotton-headed Scandinavian cattleship ballast, catch that ball in your arms when I throw it to you, and don't let go of it!" shrieked Bost, shooting it at him again. "Oll right," said Ole patiently. He cornered the ball after a short struggle and stood hugging it faithfully. "Toss it back, toss it back!" howled Bost, jumping up and down.
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