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Updated: June 22, 2025
"I've listened to all you had to say, and kept my mouth shet, but since you're bringing me into this, you might as well know where I stand. Billie's going to do just what she damn' pleases about this. She don't need the old scoundrel's money she's got plenty of her own, and she's not going to be shanghaied across the border while I'm here to prevent it!" "Sir !" "Never mind, Jim."
While in San Francisco Halpin Frayser was walking one dark night along the water front of the city, when, with a suddenness that surprised and disconcerted him, he became a sailor. He was in fact "shanghaied" aboard a gallant, gallant ship, and sailed for a far countree.
There was Holy Joe, the shanghaied parson, whose weak flesh scorned the torture, because of the strong, pure faith in the man's soul. There were Blackie and Boston, their rat-hearts steeled to courage by lust of gold, their rascally, seductive tongues welding into a dangerous unit the mob of desperate, broken stiffs who inhabited the foc'sle.
"Mee dear friend Jim put a knock-me-out drop into your Manhattan cocktail. It's a capsule filled with a drug. You were shanghaied, son," said the Captain, blandly. About an hour later Wilbur turned in. Kitchell showed him his bunk with its "donkey's breakfast" and single ill-smelling blanket. It was located under the companionway that led down into the cabin.
Maybe they'll say they was shanghaied; maybe they won't. But I've got fifty papers to show they're liars 'cause they've put their names to th' bottom of every paper." "And they were sober when they did it?" "I ain't been lookin' arter their morals or their personal habits," replied Stubbs, with some disgust. "As fer their turnin' yeller mos' men are yeller until they are afraid not ter be."
The captain stood over him, his eyes blazing. He looked the savage, barbaric slavedriver he was. "Me, I'm Bully Green, and don't you forget it. Been shanghaied, have you? Not going to touch a rope? Then, by thunder, you white-livered beachcomber, a rope will touch you till you're flayed. Get this in your coconut.
"They're mighty close to it, if they've shanghaied Mr. Benson and Mr. Hastings and put to sea with 'em," rejoined Eph. Then he rang for more speed. Down below, Williamson almost instantly responded. The "Farnum" now fairly leaped through the water. "Turn the light on the knockabout, now, and keep it there," directed the submarine boy. There was a seven-knot breeze blowing.
Then he grasped the significance of the Swede's double cross, and his laughter joined mine. "Ho, ho shanghaied his own runner! Ho, ho . . . that damned Swede!" Then it evidently struck Mister Lynch that he was conducting himself with unseemly levity in company with a foremast hand. His face became stern, his voice hard, and my moment of grace was ended. "Turn to!" he commanded me.
I was shanghaied into one of their lime-juicers once, an' I never forgot it! Slip below!" "No, I'll take my medicine!" said Jack grimly. "Might as well get it done with. This thing has been hangin' over my head a number of years now, and I'll be glad to hear the last of it. It's a terrible thing for an innocent man." "Perhaps some way may be found for clearing you," suggested Alice.
Only once did she relax: "How did you come to be aboard here with these rat-eaters you're no sailor?" she said abruptly. "Huh!" laughed Wilbur, mirthlessly; "huh! I was shanghaied." Moran smote the table with a red fist, and shouted with sonorous, bell-toned laughter. "Shanghaied? you? Now, that is really good. And what are you going to do now?" "What are you going to do?"
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