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Updated: June 27, 2025
Along South street and by Whitehall, he watch'd with curious eyes the movements of the shipping, and the loading and unloading of cargoes; and listen'd to the merry heave-yo of the sailors and stevedores.
Stevedores, laborers and others not generally credited with an excess amount of worldly wealth gayly and festively swore to proofs showing the loss of family plate, ancestral pictures, silk underwear, ball gowns, evening clothes and jewels. There was no possibility of disciplining these perjurors and it was up to the expertness of the adjusters to defend their companies from being looted.
While the boatswain was still speaking, and expressing his regret at not being able to show the stevedores that he properly appreciated the mode in which they had done their work, I noticed a boy come out from somewhere on the deck below, just underneath where we were standing, and make his way towards the forepart of the ship, apparently in a great hurry about something or other.
Of course I'm going to win his twenty-five thousand bet because he doesn't know what it means to discharge a vessel in Sobre Vista, and Mike Murphy has orders from me to hire all the available stevedores there to do something else while Joey is trying to hire them to discharge the Tyee. Don't worry, Joe! The country is safe in the capable hands of Mike Murphy." "I see.
With the exception of a few stevedores at work on the wharves and a trifling jostle at the market-places, the whole city seems to be sitting down in its Northern solitude, waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for something to turn up. In some parts one may walk half a mile without hearing a sound save the echo of his own footsteps. But don't understand this as a reflection upon the Swedish race.
I ask you about the new time, O God the Father!" he repeated. Two weary stevedores were going homeward. "He'll drive all poverty out of the world and give us all a new life that's the form his madness takes," said one of them, with a dreary laugh. "Then he's got the millennium on the brain?" said the other. "No, he's just snarling at the world," said old Jorgen, behind them.
I gazed for some time at this marvel. It's unusual enough anywhere, but aboard a California hooker it is little short of miraculous. The crew had all turned up, apparently, and a swarm of stevedores were hustling every sort of provisions, supplies, stock, spars, lines and canvas down into the hold. It was a rush job, and that mate was having his hands full.
Steamboat masters up at Duluth knew it, and mates and deck hands and stevedores and dockwallopers more than one steamer scraped her paint in the haste to get under the long spouts that waited to pour out grain by the hundred thousand bushels.
Up the gangway were trooping the customs officers, the surveyor, the agent's clerk, and the stevedores. Quick work disposed of these and cleared his cabin, the agent waiting to take him to the office. "Dud ye send word tull the wife?" had been his greeting to the clerk. "Yes, a telegram, as soon as you were reported."
Them English stevedores generally rams th' stuffin' out av a ship in spite av th' marks they puts on 'em." Captain Sackett came from below and joined us. "I'd like to get that foremast aboard while it holds calm," said he; "and if you'll start the men, we'll have it done by noon. The sooner we all work together, the better.
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