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Title: More Cargoes
1897

Author: W. W. Jacobs

Release Date: June 12, 2008 [EBook #25769]

Language: English

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MORE CARGOES

By W. W. Jacobs

Frederick A. Stokes Company - 1897

CONTENTS:

More Cargoes
Smoked Skipper
A Safety Match
A Rash Experiment
The Cabin Passenger
"Choice Spirits"
A Disciplinarian
Brother Hutchins
The Disbursement Sheet
Rule Of Three
Pickled Herring
Two Of A Trade
An Intervention
The Grey Parrot
Money-Changers
The Lost Ship

MORE CARGOES

SMOKED SKIPPER

"Wapping Old Stairs?" said the rough individual! shouldering the
brand-new sea-chest, and starting off at a trot with it; "yus, I know
the place, captin. Fust v'y'ge, sir?"

"Ay, ay, my hearty," replied the owner of the chest, a small,
ill-looking lad of fourteen. "Not so fast with those timbers of yours.
D'ye hear?"

"All right, sir," said the man, and, slackening his pace, twisted his
head round to take stock of his companion.

"This ain't your fust v'y'ge, captin," he said admiringly; "don't tell
me. I could twig that directly I see you. Ho, what's the use o' trying
to come it over a poor'ard-working man like that?"

"I don't think there's much about the sea I don't know," said the boy in
a satisfied voice. "Starboard, starboard your helium a bit."

The man obeying promptly, they went the remainder of the distance in
this fashion, to the great inconvenience of people coming from the other
direction.

"And a cheap 'arf-crown's worth, too, captin," said the man, as he
thoughtfully put the chest down at the head of the stairs and sat on it
pending payment.

"I want to go off to the _Susan Jane_," said the boy, turning to a
waterman who was sitting in his boat, holding on to the side of the
steps with his hand.

"All right," said the man, "give us a hold o' your box."

"Put it aboard," said the boy to the other man.

"A' right, captin," said the man, with a cheer