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    A List To Starboard 1909
    A List To Starboard 1909
    A List To Starboard 1909
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    A List To Starboard 1909

    By Francis Hopkinson Smith

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A List To Starboard 1909 - Francis Hopkinson Smith

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A List To Starboard, by F. Hopkinson Smith

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      Title: A List To Starboard

             1909

      Author: F. Hopkinson Smith

      Illustrator: F. Hopkinson Smith

      Release Date: December 3, 2007 [EBook #23702]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LIST TO STARBOARD ***

      Produced by David Widger

      A LIST TO STARBOARD

      By F. Hopkinson Smith

      1909

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      I

      A short, square chunk of a man walked into a shipping office on the East Side, and inquired for the Manager of the Line. He had kindly blue eyes, a stub nose, and a mouth that shut to like a rat-trap, and stayed shut. Under his chin hung a pair of half-moon whiskers which framed his weather-beaten face as a spike collar frames a dog's.

      You don't want to send this vessel to sea again, blurted out the chunk. She ought to go to the dry-dock. Her boats haven't had a brushful of paint for a year; her boilers are caked clear to her top flues, and her pumps won't take care of her bilge water. Charter something else and lay her up.

      The Manager turned in his revolving chair and faced him. He was the opposite of the Captain in weight, length, and thickness—a slim, well-groomed, puffy-cheeked man of sixty with a pair of uncertain, badly aimed eyes and a voice like the purr of a cat.

      Oh, my dear Captain, you surely don't mean what you say. She is perfectly seaworthy and sound. Just look at her inspection— and he passed him the certificate.

      No—I don't want to see it! I know 'em by heart: it's a lie, whatever it says. Give an inspector twenty dollars and he's stone blind.

      The Manager laughed softly. He had handled too many rebellious captains in his time; they all had a protest of some kind—it was either the crew, or the grub, or the coal, or the way she was stowed. Then he added softly, more as a joke than anything else:

      Not afraid, are you, Captain?

      A crack started from the left-hand corner of the Captain's mouth, crossed a fissure in his face,

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