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Updated: June 28, 2025
Newson was here two days ago, well and jolly; his Smack had a good Thing on the Ship-wash lately; and altogether they have done pretty well this Winter. He is about beginning to paint my Great Ship. "I had your letter about Nets and Dan. You must not pretend you can't write as good a Letter as a man needs to write, or to read.
FitzGerald must have been tolerably conversant with the Harwich and Felixstowe mariners with the "salwagers" of the "Ship-wash" and the characters of the pilots and fishermen of the east coast. But Posh seems to have come to him as something new. How it happened it is impossible to guess. Posh has no idea. He has a more or less contemptuous appreciation of FitzGerald's great affection for him.
The "Ship-wash" was, and is, the "Rattlin' Sam" of Felixstowe, and Tom Newson, FitzGerald's skipper, had evidently had a good bit of "salwagin'." "A small buoy, with some ensign atop, to mark where the fishing lines have been shot; and the dan is said to 'watch well' if it hold erect against wind and tide. I have often mistaken it for some floating sea bird of an unknown species."
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