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Updated: July 29, 2025
As he shifted the wheel he heard a cry behind him, and at the same time a hoarse, domineering voice called out: "Here, what do you mean, changing your course that way? Look out, or I'll run you down! Get out of my way, you land-lubber, you!" Startled, Ned and Tom turned.
She rode the endlessly-tossing waves like a sea-gull, carrying her head with a care-free air and dipping to the waves in jaunty fashion. Her lines were very fine, tapering and beautiful, even to the eye of a land-lubber. A hundred and six feet from stem to stern, twenty-three feet of beam and ten feet of depth, she was loaded to water's edge with cargo for the islands to which we were bound.
There were no racks or other contrivances to suggest that it was prepared to turn in any direction at an angle of forty-five degrees, and which to the land-lubber causes qualms even while the ship is still tied to the dock.
The sailors perhaps ought to make allowances; but heartless as they are, they do not. No sooner is his cleanliness questioned than they rise upon him like a mob of the Middle Ages upon a Jew; drag him into the lee-scuppers, and strip him to the buff. In vain he bawls for mercy; in vain calls upon the captain to save him. Alas! I say again, for the land-lubber at sea.
"Bad weather coming. That jumpy wind is an ugly sign. And look! over there in the East see that black line, low down? If that isn't a storm I'm a land-lubber. The gales round here are fierce, when they do blow tear your canvas out like paper. You take the wheel, Doctor: it'll need a strong arm if it's a real storm. I'll go wake Bumpo and Chee-Chee. This looks bad to me.
Our hope and pride. A pretty pilot, who runs aground like a land-lubber; for if he had borrowed to enable him to get on, if he had run into debt for feasting Deputies, winning votes, and increasing his influence, I should be the first to say, 'Here is my purse dip your hand in, my friend! But when it comes of paying for papa's folly folly I warned you of!
And this generous propensity he the more frequently exercised upon the effects-whiskey, cold ham, crackers and cheese- of the vote-cribber, whom he regards as a sort of cold-hearted land-lubber, whose political friends outside were not what they should be.
Men of the roughest cast, mentally and physically, were there, in heavy boots and dirty garments, laughing and chatting, and greeting one another; some of the younger among them sky-larking in a mild way that is, giving an occasional poke in the ribs that would have been an average blow to a "land-lubber," or a tip to a hat which sent it on the deck, or a slap on the back like a pistol-shot.
"No, no, skipper, I'll wait. Though I'm just come from the shore, you don't take me for an impatient land-lubber, do you? Go, finish your work, and I'll rest a bit. I've been ill, you see, an' can't stand as much as I used to," he added apologetically.
And this generous propensity he the more frequently exercised upon the effects whiskey, cold ham, crackers and cheese of the vote-cribber, whom he regards as a sort of cold-hearted land-lubber, whose political friends outside were not what they should be.
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