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Updated: June 17, 2025
In rags, ev'ry one on us, 'cept you, an' your black velvet suit is lookin' a leetle mite rusty, if you'll 'scuse an ol' sailor-man, for speakin' right out. An' we'd like somethin' good to eat, an' somethin' good to drink.
"I won't be after I get to the shed," replied the sailor-man. "Then do me a favor, please," begged Pessim, walking briskly along behind them, for they were hastening to the shed. "Depends on what it is," said Cap'n Bill. "I wish you would take my umbrella down to the shore and hold it over the poor fishes till it stops raining. I'm afraid they'll get wet," said Pessim.
The figure-artist is a German shoemaker with an untaught passion for art, the other is a simple hearted old Yankee sailor-man whose possibilities are strictly limited to his ship, his cannon and his patch of petrified sea.
And poor Dickie, after an instant of sharp annoyance, touched by the man's honest humanity smiled upon him a smile of utter weariness, utter homelessness. "Perfectly true. Get me out to sea then, Vanstone. I shall be better there than anywhere else," he said. Whereupon the kindly sailor-man turned away, swearing gently into his trim, black beard.
The bearer of the note, she informed him, was a tall, lean man, with a red neckerchief tied around his neck and with copper buckles to his shoes, and he had the appearance of a sailor-man, having a great queue of red hair hanging down his back. But, Lord! what was such a description as that in a busy seaport town full of scores of men to fit such a likeness?
I'll tell him that since you left the Palestine you've been touring your native country to 'expand your mind. She's Boston, as ugly as a brown stone jug, and highly intellectual. He's all right, and as good a sailor-man as ever trod a deck, but she's boss, runs the ship, and looks after the crew's morals. Thet's why we're short-handed.
Yesterday, I vas a market gerdener, vith a basket o' fine wegetables as nobody 'ad ordered, the day afore, a sailor-man out o' furrin parts, as vos a-seeking and a-searchin' for a gray-'eaded feyther as didn't exist, to-day I'm a riverside cove as 'ad found a letter a letter as I'd stole " "Stolen!" repeated Barnabas.
Pull the bung out of the barrel, and let the contents escape? Such a thought never even occurred to him or, if it did, was instantly dismissed; for, though an old sailor-man may curse the drink, good rum is to him a sacred thing; and to empty half a little barrel of it into the sea, would be an act almost equivalent to child-murder. He put the cask into the dinghy, and rowed it over to the reef.
"Turn the bloomin' thing off and turn it off at the main. Enough to give any respectable, law-abidin' sailor-man the 'ump!"
The other thing's to stop and fight!" "I fight," said Santos, stalking to the door. "Have you no more ammunition for me, friend Cole? Then I must live you alive; adios, senhor!" Harris cast a wistful look towards the manhole, not in cowardice, I fancy, but in sudden longing for the sea, the longing of a poor devil of a sailor-man doomed to die ashore.
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