piziness

Updated: June 23, 2025

At any moment a cruiser might swoop down and hale the crew away to Siberia. The fate of other poaching seal-hunters was too well known to the men of the Mary Thomas, and there was cause for grave faces. "Mine friends," spoke up a German boat-steerer, "it vas a pad piziness.

Jack London - Stories of Ships and the Sea : Little Blue Book # 1169