Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
Men, dwarfed by the magnitude of their environment to the size of ants, and clad in jerseys and white working-rig, swarmed about the decks and batteries. "There's the Fleet Flagship," continued Thorogood, pointing. "That ship with the drifters round her, flying the Commander-in-Chief's flag. That's where Podgie was bound for. Rummy to think he'll be back in London again in a couple of days' time!"
How the mackerel paid I do not know, but Posh was in time to go north for the beginning of the herring fishing in July. There must always be an interval ashore between the return of the drifters from the western voyage and their sailing north to follow the herring down from Aberdeen to Yarmouth.
I didn’t want no drifters cuttin’ in on what was rightly mine, in a manner of speakin’. So I just waited m’ chance to get at that belt of yours. Found what I wanted—an’ that sorta made up m’ mind. "Colonel Kitchell here, he wanted me to go south with him.
She started away, and her son started to follow, but paused as the other man caught his sleeve and growled: "I say, isn't that Pete Cheever there, right there by the rail? Yes, it is and with !" Then Tom gave a start and said: "Ssh! Here's Charity Coe." Both men looked confused; then they brightened and greeted a new batch of drifters, and there was a babble of: "Why, hello! How are you, Tom!
In other words, if each householder were married and had a family of four, almost the entire immigration of 351,530 was absorbed in permanent tenure by the land. The drifters, the floaters, the disinherited of their share of earth became landowners, proprietors of Canada to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres.
The seamen, lacking initiative, lacking imagination, a crude collection of water-front drifters, more or less wrecked specimens of humanity who went to sea because they had no other capacity were apathetic, listening to Carlsen with a sort of awe, a hypnosis before his argument that street rabble exhibit before the jargon of a soap-box orator.
The introduction of steam drifters has made the shares complicated in the extreme. The owners take so much as owners of the boat, so much for the engines, etc., etc., and, in fact, the owners get the share of a very greedy lion. Many a boat earns over 2000 pounds from October to December. A lucky skipper may take 200 pounds for his share of the home fishing alone.
Moreover, it is the number and kind of his aspirations that determine a man's place in the scale of manhood. Lowest of all is that great under class of pulseless men, content to creep, and without thought of wings for rising. Mere drifters are they, creatures of circumstance, indifferently remaining where birth or events have started them. Having food and raiment, therewith they are content.
He regarded the hand blankly. "Not what?" "Not here in this Square, if you don't mind." "But where else is there?" he asked piteously. "You know yourself there are countless thousands of homeless drifters floating around on this teeming island in vans, with no place to land." "Try Jersey. Or Brooklyn," was her hopeful suggestion.
On Christmas Day of 1867, when the season was over and all the herring drifters had "made up," that is to say, had worked out their accounts and struck a balance of profit or loss, Fitzgerald wrote to Posh: "WOODBRIDGE, Christmas Day.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking