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Updated: June 28, 2025
Neils Halvorsen, of all men! Old Neils, "the squarehead" deckhand of the green-pea trade! Dull, bowlegged Neils, with his lost dog smile and his Mr. Gibney rubbed his eyes feebly and half staggered to his feet. What was that? A shout? Without doubt he had heard a sound that was not the moaning of their remorseless prison-keeper, the sea. And "Hands off," shrieked Mr.
For four sun-bright days and dew-sweet nights they had found themselves sole possessors of a bay so lovely that it seemed to have emerged bodily from a green and opal dream. "'Friendly Bay, they calls it," a genial deckhand told them, grinning. "But you folks will be the only friends anywheres about.
"Have you always been mate of the Celestine?" Kirk inquired. "I have not," said Mr. Martin. "I signed aboard of her at Rio this trip, to get up into the Christian world again. I've been deckhand and seaman and mate on more vessels than I can count in every part of the uncivilized world. I skippered one ship, even pestilential tub that she was."
"Fire," he bawled as the Maggie rested an instant in the trough of the sea and a deckhand jerked the lanyard. Instantly Mr. Gibney clapped the long glass to his eye. "Good direction over," he murmured. "I'll lay on her waterline next time." He jerked open the breech, ejected the cartridge case, and rammed another cartridge home.
"Why, I'm going to send a judge and a jury aboard the Quickstep, try this Finn, Kjellin, and if he's guilty of dereliction of duty I'll bet you a plug hat to one small five-cent bag of smoking tobacco I'll know all about it inside of a week." "Do you mean to put a secret-service operative aboard disguised as a deckhand?" "Huh! Skinner, you distress me.
Across it the bayou boat wheezed and thumped drearily, drowning the bellowing of the dying steers. Once the deckhand stirred and pointed. "Lilies, Cap'n pourin' from all the swamps, and dead ahead there now!" Scowling, Tedge held to the starboard. Yes, there they were a phalanx of flowers in the dusk. He broke into wild curses at them, his boat, the staggering cattle.
"Some more of the Kaiser's vaunted navy trying to sneak away from their home base for a bit of trickery." As he rang the engine room to shut off power, the American commander added, with flashing eyes: "If we don't bring down one of these prowlers before this night is over I'll go back home and ship as deckhand on a Jersey City ferry-boat."
The two guns came out of the hold in jig time, and while Scraggs and one deckhand opened the after hold and got out ammunition for the guns, Mr. Gibney, assisted by the other deckhand, proceeded to put one of the guns together.
"About 4 o'clock in the morning I was called by Deckhand William Brown to come on deck and see if an object sighted was a submarine. I did so, and saw a submarine about a mile distant on the port bow. I gave the order, 'Hard a-starboard. The ship was turned until the gun was able to bear on the submarine, and it was kept bearing.
For a little while the quaint and original riverman held on in the new age, only to disappear entirely when the colored roustabout became the deckhand of post-bellum days. The riverman as a type was unknown except on the larger rivers in the earlier years of water traffic.
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