Not until afterward was I to know that his willingness to talk was most unwonted and was where the liquor gave him away.
"It'd a-ben a grace had I died years ago," he said, "rather than to a- lived to see sailors an' ships pass away from the sea." "But I understand the _Elsinore_ is considered one of the finest," I urged.
"So she is.

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to-day.

But what is she ?--a damned cargo-carrier.