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"You did not tell me how the Spy-Glass answers. But do not trouble yourself to write. "Yours truly, "FLAGSTONE FITZGERALD." As soon as I asked Posh the meaning of the signature "Flagstone FitzGerald" he burst out laughing. "What!" said he. "Hain't yew niver heard about ole Flagstone? As the man's sons still carry on his old business here in Lowestoft it is as well not to give the true name.
The appeal must surely have moved Posh, for the pathos of the reference to his patron's loneliness could not but have its effect. But to touch on the sacred "bare" of a Lowestoft fisherman is always dangerous. There are many teetotallers among them now, and they would resent any imputation on their temperance. But those who are not teetotallers would resent it much more.
And, if he was, the man referred to in his story, the man who robbed him to all intents and purposes, is hereby invited to do something to purge his offence by coming forward and "behaving like a gennleman" upon which I will answer for it that all will be forgiven and forgotten by Posh. "Ye see, master," said Posh, "that was a Mr.
This year, however, I had my first longshores brought me yesterday, the 1st of October, and there are not a dozen Scotch craft to be seen in the basins. FitzGerald stayed at Lowestoft till the north-easters did blow Posh home. And perhaps he would have been happier had he gone back to Woodbridge before the return of the Meum and Tuum. He wrote to Mr.
For the time it blew over, and the mutual relations between Posh and his "guv'nor" were as friendly as ever. During the winter of 1869-70 it seems that Posh conceived the idea that the capital of the firm of FitzGerald and Fletcher justified the working partner in increasing the stock-in-trade.
It must be remembered that East Anglia was notorious for the frequency of the disease in question. But FitzGerald's fears concerning Posh were not realised. Levi was a Lowestoft fishmonger, referred to in the footnote of Two Suffolk Friends, p. 108. The difference between "sunk" and "swum" herring nets would be unintelligible to a modern herring fisher.
On Christmas Day of 1867, when the season was over and all the herring drifters had "made up," that is to say, had worked out their accounts and struck a balance of profit or loss, Fitzgerald wrote to Posh: "WOODBRIDGE, Christmas Day.
But there is no doubt that this same mild beer inserted the edge of the adze which was to split the partnership in a little more than three years' time this and the "interfarin' parties," whom Posh blames for all the misunderstandings which were to come. "MARKETHILL, WOODBRIDGE, Thursday.
And Posh did not give way to his "guv'nor" as he might have done. No one has a greater admiration than I for this magnificent claim of a MAN to be MAN'S equal. It kept the race of Norfolk and Suffolk longshoremen worthy of their traditions until the cockney visitors, with their tips and their hunger for longshore lies, ruined the nature of many of our beach folk.
I am sure it makes me sad and ashamed to be setting up for Judge on a much nobler Creature than myself. . . . I had thought of returning him his written Promise as worthless: desiring back my direction to my Heirs that he should keep on the Lugger in case of my Death. . . . I think Posh ought to be made to feel this severely: and, as his Wife is better I do not mind making him feel it if I can.
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