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  • like to know? W’ot hif she his the skipper’s missis. Hi’ve got shares hin the ship myself." "She came aboard, Jimmy, my son," replied the first mate,"...
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  • The Praying Skipper and Other Stories by Ralph D. Paine IV. The Last Pilot Schooner 2490558The Praying Skipper and Other Stories — IV. The Last Pilot SchoonerRalph...
    431 bytes (7,405 words) - 18:41, 30 May 2018
  • work. You want to meet them. There's Jimmy Thatch. Seven meatballs on his plane. "How many more today, Skipper?" Back at Midway, Tojo swore he'd liberate...
    3 KB (642 words) - 13:22, 21 February 2024
  • were plans of a mechanism. "Stand by there a minute!" Jimmy shouted over the rails to the skipper of the tug-boat; then, to me, "Bring him into my cabin...
    16 KB (3,055 words) - 18:55, 14 June 2022
  • from Dover And your man Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann Was the skipper of the Irish Rover We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out...
    2 KB (352 words) - 20:42, 18 June 2024
  • voice. "Going free! And old Twisted Jimmy did this for me after I had bashed him one on the head! And the skipper giving me my pay when I go!" He stopped...
    23 KB (4,594 words) - 19:08, 15 June 2022
  • pronounced cowlick this—was Tom Hardy's outer man. At first sight, Legs and Jimmy lost all awe of him. As Cat rushed up, the airman seized the boy's hand...
    315 bytes (2,672 words) - 16:49, 6 August 2017
  • "Good-bye, skipper," and that is the end of it. If such men ever meet again, it is by sheer chance, for but rarely do they write. Neither Twisted Jimmy nor I...
    20 KB (3,844 words) - 18:24, 16 June 2022
  • Nest. Of course, I didn't blow on you and Jimmy. After he'd got the boys off his mind, he informed me his skipper would be down today to identify the man...
    318 bytes (1,881 words) - 12:03, 26 August 2017
  •   AS if deathly tired after a strain that had lasted for years, Twisted Jimmy Martin reported himself off duty to me on the following forenoon, confessed...
    36 KB (6,716 words) - 19:10, 15 June 2022
  • and Jimmy Todd, you better take a lesson from my dad and from me too. I got you fellows this trip, didn't I?" "Doggone right you did," conceded Jimmy, speedily...
    352 bytes (3,457 words) - 16:48, 6 August 2017
  • clumsy instrument more as a joke than with any great expectation of results. Jimmy, sitting cross-legged on the starboard side of the boat, was line-fishing...
    317 bytes (2,352 words) - 04:40, 18 August 2017
  • Fish — Patrol — "Lusitania" — Ten Per Cent. — Mine-Sweepers — Mines — The Skipper of Mine-Sweeper 1113 — Traitor — Nerves On The North Sea — Our Friend the...
    6 KB (736 words) - 18:40, 5 June 2023
  • of the staid old Hotel Danieli on the Riva degli Schiavoni, and Captain Jimmy, remembering having read that it was originally a fourteenth-century palace...
    499 bytes (3,229 words) - 23:28, 13 August 2022
  • were Jimmy's clothes mostly—though he would accept anything from anybody; but nobody, except Jimmy, had anything to spare. His devotion to Jimmy was unbounded...
    83 KB (14,748 words) - 11:24, 15 January 2022
  • mate without moving a muscle. The skipper eyed him solemnly, but the mate stood firm. "After that," continued the skipper, still watching him suspiciously...
    17 KB (3,066 words) - 13:11, 26 September 2021
  • tragedy of the mind than mistrust of one's fellows, and I doubt if either Jimmy or I could have been entirely frank and free with our men had not proof...
    16 KB (2,978 words) - 19:11, 15 June 2022
  • was of the opinion that we were too far to the westward; but the Yankee skipper worked out so plausible a theory of the disturbance of land-currents, even...
    22 KB (4,260 words) - 18:04, 17 June 2022
  • for keeps? I'm getting old, Jimmy, and you're the last living being that has Harnway blood in his veins.” Captain Jimmy was unexpectedly aware that his...
    499 bytes (4,472 words) - 23:27, 13 August 2022
  • were exchanging apprehensive glances. "It looks mighty bad, Tom," said Jimmy, with a shake of his head, and I was compelled to agree with him. "She surely...
    15 KB (2,797 words) - 18:04, 17 June 2022
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