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And as to the various kinds of water-thieves, said my friend Pea, there were the Tier-rangers, who silently dropped alongside the tiers of shipping in the Pool, by night, and who, going to the companion-head, listened for two snores snore number one, the skipper's; snore number two, the mate's mates and skippers always snoring great guns, and being dead sure to be hard at it if they had turned in and were asleep.
'But ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats, water-thieves, and land-thieves I mean pirates; and then there is the peril of waters, winds and rocks. To this list the nervous owner of rare books must add fire, that dread enemy of all the arts. It is often difficult to provide stabling for dead men's hobby-horses.
Then I had done well, as even my enemies, if I had any must have admitted. "Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats, and water-rats, water-thieves, and land-thieves; I mean pirates; and then, there is the peril of waters, winds and rocks: the man is, notwithstanding, sufficient; three thousand ducats; I think I may take his bond." Shylock.
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