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Updated: July 28, 2025

"'You'll give a sailor a hearin', won't ye? says I. 'As to that, well, I don't know, Jack; you musn't break the laws of South Carolina when you get ashore. You seem like a desirable sailor, and can no doubt get a ship and good wages-this is a bad affair.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life