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Updated: July 21, 2025
"I believe you, my boy," responded the skipper. "There's nothin' like a good offing an' a tight ship. We stand but a poor chance as we go creepin' 'long shore in them rotten tubs, that are well named `Coal-Coffins. Why, if it comes on thick squally weather or a gale when yer dodgin' off an' on, the `Coal-Coffins' go down by dozens.
"Yes, lass; it's only a nickname the old tub got in the north, where they call the colliers coal-coffins, 'cause it's ten to one you'll go to the bottom in 'em every time ye go to sea." "Are they all so bad as to deserve the name?" inquired Susan. "No, not 'xactly all of 'em; but there's a good lot as are not half so fit for sea as a washin' tub.
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