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Updated: June 15, 2025
Eight weeks at sea; nine days on shore, is the unvarying routine of the North Sea smacksman's life, summer and winter, all the year round. Two months of toil and exposure of the severest kind, fair-weather or foul, and little more than one week of repose in the bosom of his family varied by visits more or less frequent to the tap-room of the public-house. It is a rugged life to body and soul.
The smacksman's advantages in this respect may be better understood when we say that on shore he has to pay 4 shillings per pound for tobacco. But his greatest advantage of all that for which the plan has been adopted is his being kept away from the vessel where, while purchasing tobacco, he is tempted to buy poisonous spirits.
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