twenty-one-ton

Updated: May 27, 2025

As to money, there warn't a ten-dollar bill in the crew. I'd spent every cent I could rake and scrape to fit the Screamer out, and the boys were workin' on shares, and nobody was to get any money until the last stone that big twenty-one-ton feller was 'board the brig. Then I could go to the agents in Hamilton and draw two-thirds of my contract.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Under Dog

That twenty-one-ton chunk, I forgot to tell ye, I had picked up the day before, and it was then aboard the Screamer, and we was on our way down to Hamilton, where the brig lay, when her nose scraped off the Admiral's paint. "It did look kind o' nasty for us, and no mistake. One day more, and we'd 'a' been through and had our money. "'Go up and see him, said the watchman.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Under Dog