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Updated: May 15, 2025

But think of those three Babes-in-the-Wood villains, skipper Davis, the Yankee swashbuckler and ship scuttler; Herrick, the dreamy poet, ruined by commerce and early love, with his days of remorse and his days of compensatary liquor; and Huish, the great-hearted Scotch ruffian, who chafed at the conventional concealments of trade among pals and never could as a true Scotchman understand why you should wait to use a knife upon a victim when promptness lay in the club right at hand think of them sailing out of Honolulu harbor on the Farallone.

Young Ewing Allison - The Delicious Vice