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Actually, he played the part of stevedore as well for ten days on the relief ship. "I have dropped my last knuckle down the hold this morning," he wrote back, "and I have only two fingers left that I can wash." After a few weeks, he hastened back to Rome, to give a promised public exhibition of "Diana of the Tides," and, as soon as the exhibition was over, rushed down to Messina again.
Some invisible force lifted Eliphalet's eyes to the upper deck, where they rested, as if by appointment, on the trim figure of the young man in command of the Louisiana. He was very young for the captain of a large New Orleans packet. When his lips moved, something happened. Once he raised his voice, and a negro stevedore rushed frantically aft, as if he had received the end of a lightning-bolt.
Soldiers up in the Gallipoli hills, the captain on the bridge, a stevedore working on a lighter in the blaze of noon with the winch engines squealing round him you turn round to find a man, busy the moment before, standing like a statue, hands folded in front of him, facing the east.
It its unnecessary here to repeat the moral persuasion which Virginia used to get her aunt up and dressed. That lady, when she had heard the whistle and the gongs, had let her imagination loose. Turning her face to the wall, she was in the act of repeating her prayers as her niece entered. A big stevedore carried her down two decks to where the gang-plank was thrown across.
Some people might not consider it restful to rise at four every weekday morning and sail in a catboat twelve miles out to sea and haul a wet cod line for hours, not to mention the sail home and the cleaning and barreling of the catch. Captain Eri did that. Captain Perez was what he called "stevedore" that is, general caretaker during the owner's absence, at Mr.
"It's up to you now, Matie," the stevedore had said to the impatient first officer. "My job's done right, but she'll roll her sticks out if it's rough outside." "That's nice; hand me all the cheerful news you have when you know they hung out storm-warnings at noon," the officer had growled as the stevedore went ashore.
He's a stevedore, and does the work to the fort. He's never done nothin' for you, but I told him next time you come down I'd fetch him over. Say, Dan!" beckoning with his head over his shoulder; then, turning to Babcock, "I make you acquainted, sir, with Mr. Daniel McGaw." Two faces now filled the window Lathers's and that of a red-headed man in a straw hat. "All right.
"Keep an eye out, sir," the bridge-tender called after him, he had been directing him to Grogan's house, "perhaps Tom may be on the road." Then it suddenly occurred to Babcock that, so far as he could remember, he had never seen Mr. Thomas Grogan, his stevedore.
"He is a stevedore with thirty years of the quayside and at the port of Barcelona, where there are German ships with their officers and crews on board." Hillyard was troubled. He drew from his pocket creased letters and read them for the twentieth time with a frowning countenance. "There is so much at stake. Two hundred feluccas two hundred motor-driven feluccas!
So here it is raw, so to speak just as it was told to me but unfortunately robbed of the striking effect of the narrator; the most imposing old ruffian that ever followed the unromantic trade of master stevedore in the port of London. Oct. 1910.
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