sponge-hook

Updated: May 17, 2025

There he is, that black-mustached fellow, with little rings in his ears. He will let you know what your duties are." A string of four dingies trailed behind the sponger and as many poles, each thirty feet long, with a sponge-hook at one end, lay upon the deck. Pedro was examining one of these poles when Billy went to him and said: "Pedro, I am to go in your boat. What do I have to do?"

A. W. Dimock - Dick in the Everglades