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Updated: June 6, 2025
But learnin' by experience is a good deal like shippin' green afore the mast; it'll make an able seaman of you, if it don't kill you fust. When I was a boy there was a man in our town name of Nickerson Cummin's. He was mate of a ship and smart as a red pepper poultice on a skinned heel.
"By jinks!" ejaculated Perk, "that there's the place we learned they was shippin' Chinks over to Florida from, ain't it Jack, boy?" "Just what it was," admitted the other.
Stillman was Murphy's most important rival, and the news did not cheer him. He glared darkly at Hennesey. "An' I've got the shippin' o' Williams's new crew whin he sails," continued Hennesey, "an' I'll not go to you for 'em, Murphy." "Ye'll not?" responded Murphy, luridly. "After all the wark I've given ye." "I'll not. I told ye I'd git yer business, an' I'll do it."
Ever sence I hauled that crew of seasick summer boarders out of the drink a couple of years ago and the gov'ment gave me a medal, the minister and some more of his gang have painted out the name I was launched under and had me entered on the shippin' list as 'The Hero. I've licked two or three for callin' me that, but I can't lick a parson, and he was the one that told Billings.
"What town is this?" "Town! Call it a town if you want to. It's Wolf River. It's a shippin' point fer cattle, but it hain't no more a town 'n what the crick's a river. The trussle that washed out crosses the crick just above where it empties into Milk River. I've railroaded through here goin' on three years an' I never seen no water in it to speak of before, an' mostly it's plumb dry."
No doubt, had it come to the pinch, he might have bought some of his tormentors out three times over. Hiram White had suffered quite a financial loss some six months before, through that very Blueskin who was now lurking in Indian River inlet. He had entered into a "venture" with Josiah Shippin, a Philadelphia merchant, to the tune of seven hundred pounds sterling.
"That hain't got a thing to do with yore deal an' mine, Alf said, an' he turned an' axed Jim some'n about shippin' some chickens to Augusta that Jim didn't seem to know how to answer. "'I think it is purty steep, Pete said.
I guess she must have meant Scraggsy or Neils, both bein' blondes an' she come out of her trance shiverin' an' shakin'. "'Your fortune lies at sea, my friend, she kept on sayin'. 'Go forth an' seek it. "'Gimme the longitude an' latitude, ma'am, I says, 'an' I'll light out. "'Look in the shippin' news in the papers to-morrower, she pipes up. 'Five dollars, please."
'The town of Passage is both large and spacious, And situated upon the say; 'Tis nate and dacent, and quite adjacent To come from Cork on a summer's day. There you may slip in and take a dippin' Fornent the shippin' that at anchor ride; Or in a wherry cross o'er the ferry To Carrigaloe, on the other side. Dr. La Touche calls Father Prout an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt.
"He knows I wouldn't sell this road without gittin' money for it. Therefore he's figgerin' on makin' a lot of money out of it, or payin' off a doggone big grudge.... Somebody we don't know about is calc'latin' on movin' into this valley, Johnnie. Somebody that's goin' to do a heap of shippin' and that means timber cuttin'.... And it must be settled or Castle wouldn't come out and offer to buy."
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