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In his hot youth, he is credited with having borne his part in certain questionable proceedings in the South Sea, and hence his appellation. Freights run very high on the Lily, and it is by no means certain how far the Pirate may be concerned in keeping them so.
I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes. There does not seem to be much of the athlete about you." "For shame, Sir," answered Ulysses, fiercely, "you are an insolent fellow so true is it that the gods do not grace all men alike in speech, person, and understanding.
The captains talk together about their voyages, and how they manage with their unruly mates and crews; and how freights are in America, and the prospects of business; and of equinoctial gales, and the qualities of different ships, and their commanders, and how crews, mates, and masters have all deteriorated since their remembrance. . . . . But these men are alive, and talk of real matters, and of matters which they know.
I see it is a young man broad across the face, dressed more for Pullmans than freights, and with a cheerful kind of smile in spite of it all that made Phoebe Snow's job look like a chimney-sweep's. "'Fall off? says I. "'Nunk, says he. 'Got off. Arrived at my destination. What town is this? "'Haven't looked it up on the map yet, says I. 'I got in about five minutes before you did.
But presently I remembered with a lightening sense of relief that we had learned two or three trivial things there which we could be certain of; and so the two days were not wholly lost. For instance, we had learned that we were at last in a pioneer land, in absolute and tangible reality. The high prices charged for trifles were eloquent of high freights and bewildering distances of freightage.
Also, ondoubted, he freights the meat off some'ers to his camp, which is why we don't notice no big bones layin' 'round loose. Then Enright scans the grass mighty scroopulous; an' shore enough! thar's plenty of pony tracks printed into the soil. 'That don't look so soopernacheral neither, says Enright, p'intin' to the hoof-prints. "'Them's shorely made by a flesh an' blood pony, says Peets.
Funny never used to feel lonely when I was bumming around on freights and so on, not paying any special attention to anybody. October 23: I wonder how far I'll ever get as an aviator? The newspapers all praise me as a hero. Hero, hell! I'm a pretty steady flier but so would plenty of chauffeurs be. This hero business is mostly bunk, it was mostly chance my starting to fly at all.
"Judson has told you what's due to happen?" queried the trainmaster. "He told me to look for swift trouble; that somebody had betrayed your strike-breaking scheme." "He says they'll try to keep the east-bound freights from going out." "That would be a small matter. But we mustn't lose the moral effect of taking the first trick in the game. Are the sections all in line on the long siding?" "Yes."
Parallel to him were lines of men carrying out cargo to the lighters which would tranship it to the Parakeet, and Kettle looked upon these with a fine complacency. His tramping for cargo had been phenomenally successful. He was filling his holds at astonishingly heavy freights.
"Nothing has struck me so much, after a half-year's absence, in this novel revelation of sublimity in New York, as the evident increase on the street crowds. The city seems to have grown a whole new population, and the means of traffic and transportation have been duplicated in response to the demand of the multiplying freights and feet." Our friend laughed in self-derision, as he went on.
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