The Manet, 1933, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Manet, 1933, Vol. 6

One Saturday morning last April I visited a friend of ours, a captain, and we had a long chat over different things. He certainly (lid know what he was talking about. He told me of his first experience on a sailing ship. On a Monday morning in June, at (i couldn't sleep the night before), I applied for a job. Since there were about twelve experienced sail ors ahead of me, the prospects looked discour aging, but I had a note from the captain. So I was accepted as an ordinary seaman on board a sugar boat at $30 a month, sailing to different ports of Cuba and back to Boston. My watch was six hours on and six hours off. We mad: in all three trips during the summer, each one i - overing a period of about twenty-one days.

As soon as I was picked I was set to work cleaning up the deck, for the ship had been tied up since April. Late Monday evening we went into dry dock, and until Wednesday we chipped, washed, and scraped paint.

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