haddockers

Updated: May 22, 2025

"Fends 'em off an' fends 'em off, an' 'Don't ye come anigh me, she sez. Look at her jest look at her! Sakes! You should see one o' them toothpicks histin' up her anchor on her spike outer fifteen-fathom water." "What's a toothpick, Dan?" "Them new haddockers an' herrin'-boats. Fine's a yacht forward, with yacht sterns to 'em, an' spike bowsprits, an' a haouse that 'u'd take our hold.

Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous