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The voyage for me is almost over: I am in sight of port: like a good shipman, I have already sent down the lofty spars and housed the captious canvas in preparation for the long anchorage: I have little now to fear. And the immortals are with me in my design.
Two old men in the meanwhile enjoyed pensions in great prosperity and peace, and with perhaps a superfluity of ale and wine, in Tunstall hamlet. One had been all his life a shipman, and continued to the last to lament his man Tom.
Furthermore, Sir, if it please your mastership for to understand that the shipman be content and paid of their freight. The Celys write in the same strain too: 'This day the 16th of August the wool fleet came to Calais both of London and Ipswich in safety, thanked be God, and this same day was part landed and it riseth fair yet, thanked be God. Their letters tell us too what danger it was that they feared.
"Nay, by my father's soul, that shall he not," Saide the Shipman, "here shall he not preach, He shall no gospel here explain or teach. We all believe in the great God," quoth he; "He woulde sowe some difficulty, Or springe cockle in our clean corn."
The attempt was not repeated, for some reason or other, probably because the British got wary and kept farther away from shore. The next year, however, inventor Bushnell succeeded in blowing up a British schooner with his torpedo; but neither he nor quaint "Bije" Shipman ever received the credit that was their due, the latter being one of the forgotten heroes of the Revolution.
There were four or five of them two men of my Lord Shoreby's and one of Lord Risingham's among the number, and last, but in Dick's eyes not least, a tall, shambling, grizzled old shipman, between drunk and sober, and with a dog whimpering and jumping at his heels. The young duke passed them for a moment under a severe review. "Good," he said. "Hang them."
It was clear that "in many a tempest had his beard be shake," and certainly "the hote somer had made his hew all broun;" but farther the likeness would hardly go, for the "good fellow" which Chaucer applies with such irony to the shipman of his time, who would filch wine, and drown all the captives he made in a sea-fight, was clearly applicable in good earnest to this shipman.
Being a new scholar, he had to meet the principal of the school, as well as Miss Shipman. "Take your cap off, sir," said Mr. Marks, sternly. Unwillingly enough he did so. "For goodness' sake! what have you been doing to your head?" demanded the principal. "Getting my hair clipped, sir," said Neale. "But the color of your head?" "That's why I had the hair clipped." "What did you do to it?"
Author of "Windy McPherson's Son" and "Marching Men." Has three novels, three books of short stories, and book of songs unpublished. First short story published, "The Rabbit-pen," Harper's Magazine, July, 1914. Lives in Chicago. "Mother." Thinker, The. Untold Lie, The. ANDREWS, MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN. Born at Mobile, Ala.
"It is none too soon," said the old shipman, pointing to a yellowish tint in the haze above them. "See yonder! It is the sun which wins through. It will be here anon. Ah! said I not so?" A sickly sun, no larger and far dimmer than the moon, had indeed shown its face, with cloud-wreaths smoking across it.
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