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So much and also that her own name was Meliar-Ann and her mother kept a sailor's lodging-house the small creature told us, still trotting by our side, until we found ourselves walking alongside a low wall over which we inhaled strong odours of the sea and of longshore sewage, and spied the riding-lights of the harbour looming through the fog.
Frances had nursed Jacky Hart and talked temperance to his father and read tracts to Aunt Clorinda and started a reading circle among the factory girls and fitted out all the little Jarboes with dresses and coaxed the shore children to go to school and patched up a feud between two 'longshore families and done a hundred other things of a similar nature.
He was a longshore sailor, a native of the waterside village of Gruissan, on the southern side of the Clappe, a bargeman rather than a mariner, but accustomed to work the reaches of the inlet of Bages, and to draw the drag-net full of fish over the salt sands of St. Lucie.
It was the voice of the Longshore Jack woman who had had those adventures with me. I should have known her voice anywhere, even choked as it then was with sobs. It was a good voice, of a pleasant quality, but with a quick, authoritative ring. "I can't," she said. "I can't, Father." "Put it in your pocket," her father said. "No rubbish of that sort. You must." "It would kill me.
"You see," he went on, argumentatively, fumbling about the top of the lamp, "you got yourself so crooked amongst those 'longshore quill-drivers that you could not run clear in any way. That's what comes of such talk as yours, and of such a life. A man sees so much falsehood that he begins to lie to himself. Pah!" he said, in disgust, "there's only one place for an honest man.
Lawford asked, impressed by Cap'n Beecher's scorn of the storekeeper. The captain reflected, his jaws working spasmodically. "It's easy 'nough to pick up skipper's title longshore. 'Most ev'ry man owns some kind of a boat; and o' course a man's cap'n of his own craft or 'doughter be. But I reckon Abe Silt aimed his title honest 'nough." "How?" urged Lawford.
Here, all old friends, lend a hand! Pelican's men, stand by your captain! Did we sail round the world for nothing?" This last appeal struck home, and up leaped half-a-dozen of the old Pelicans, and set to work at his side manfully to rig the jury-mast. "Come along!" cried Cary to the malcontents; "we're raw longshore fellows, but we won't be outdone by any old sea-dog of them all."
He was a heavy-set, upstanding, blue-jerseyed figure, lithe and as spry on his feet as a cat. Tunis Latham was thirty, handsome in the bold way of longshore men, and ruddy-faced.
We had a mixed crew, and a bad lot many of them were jailbirds, smugglers, who were good, however, as far as seamanship was concerned, longshore men, and Lord Mayor's men, picked up from the London streets, the only difference between the two last being that the latter had tails to their coats, one slip of the tailor made them both akin, and we dubbed them K.H.B., or king's hard bargains.
"He has when he has it but it's bum work. Slave like a nigger and then laid off for six months, maybe." "What kind of work is that?" "'Longshore he's a 'longshoreman." "And when he's unemployed you have a hard time, don't you?" "Hard?" Mrs. Cassidy's voice broke. "What can we do? There's the insurance every week fifteen cents for my man, ten cents for me, and five cents for Annie.
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