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Updated: June 11, 2025
M'Kenny, my old first-lieutenant in the Brandywine, and, before I quitted the house, my name was down, again, for one of Uncle Sam's sailor-men. In this accidental manner have I floated about the world, most of my life not dreaming in the morning, what would fetch me up before night.
"And what did he say?" "His reply was that he couldn't accept you. The crew is full; you know nothing about a vessel; he wants nothing but sailor-men aboard of him, and if you want to do something for the South, the best thing you can do is to go into the army." "Well, I'd thank him to hold fast to his advice until he is asked to give it," said Allison spitefully.
"Don't want to berth alongside sailor-men to-night, Becky," he said, after sizing up Dick in a comprehensive glance. "Them's my sailin' orders. 'Hoist no colors, sez he, 'until you bring to at Marseilles." "What's your first port of call, John?" asked his wife. "Dunno. I'll send you a wire." A pause. Then Mrs. Stump: "Will you be long in Marseilles, John?"
"Why, I don't suppose there's been no wages paid aboard that Gleaner for three trips." "No wages?" I exclaimed, for I was still a novice in maritime affairs. "Not to sailor-men before the mast," agreed the mate. "Men cleared out; wasn't the soft job they maybe took it for. She isn' the first ship that never paid wages."
She set off happily towards the main street where the tram lines ran, feeling that short cuts were not for strangers in a big city. Even in the side street the shops were interesting. She came upon a fascinating curio shop, and stopped a moment to look at the queer medley in its window; such a medley as may be seen in any port where sailor-men bring home strange things from far countries.
When the waves began to tumble and toss and to grow bigger and bigger the ship rolled up and down, and tipped sidewise first one way and then the other and was jostled around so roughly that even the sailor-men had to hold fast to the ropes and railings to keep themselves from being swept away by the wind or pitched headlong into the sea.
"It hath in these last few days, your Majesty." "Yes?" "I have been talking with some sailor-men from the Spanish Main, and the sea sings in mine ears, sleeping and waking." "Then obey the call." "I will." "God prosper you!" "And bring your Majesty happiness and length of days."
"Lord, he is a boy, ye may weel say it, quiet and smiling, and fond of throwing back the head of him and laughing. He will aye be doing that; but there is no man will run foul o' him, drunk or sober, in these seas, and there are bold sailor-men in the Indies, ay, bold stark men.
"A black dog as goes erect on two legs and calls himself Gregory Bragg." "You mean Lady Brandon's under-bailiff?" "I do so. Well, he be no friend o' yourn, and what's more, he's hand and fist wi' others as be no friends o' yourn either, cut-throat sailor-men and black rogues every one." "How d'ye know 'em for sailor-men?"
"If I'd only stopped to think, instead o' being in such a hurry to do good to others, I should ha' been all right, and the pack o' monkey-faced swabs on the <i>Lizzie and Annie</i> wot calls themselves sailor-men would 'ave had to 'ave got something else to laugh about.
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