The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and Sayings of the People of the Town and Island of Nantucket, MassachusettsWilliam Francis Macy, Roland B. Hussey Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1916 - 183 pàgines |
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Pàgina 174 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Pàgina 77 - Remember youth as you pass by As you are now, so once was I. As I am now', so must you be Prepare for death and follow me.
Pàgina 174 - Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren Reputably. From this instance, reader, Be encouraged to diligence in thy calling, And distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man, She a discreet and virtuous woman.
Pàgina 110 - He Is a lubber, but she has been cruisin with him for years. I havent got anything agin him but he doesnt no how to navigate the sea of life. I do believe if he wanted to stop a leak board ship...
Pàgina 111 - I have taken care of her unless she runs head on the shoals of a lawyers office. Then look out for squalls. I hope sheel stand off if she sees a lawyer comin thort her bows.
Pàgina 110 - ... gets the lay as writ down on this paper. I put mother in command. I know sheel be Captain anyway, for six months after we started on our life cruise I found out that I was mate and she was master. I don't mean that she ever mutinied, but I no that whenever we didn't agree she always manoovred to windward. May be it is all right for she could sail closer to wind than I could.
Pàgina 110 - Sconset, write down this will. Item. I have cruised with my wife, Huldy Jane, since 1811. We signed articles, in town, before the preacher on Independence Day. I want her and my oldest son Jotham to be Captain and mate in bringin...
Pàgina 80 - Then turned away her languid eye To drop a tear or two, and die. Sweet babe ! she tasted of life's bitter cup, Refused to drink the potion up; But turned her little head aside, Disgusted with the taste, and died. Sweet babe I she listened for a while to hear Our mortal griefs, then turned her ear To angels' harps and songs, and cried To join their notes celestial, sighed, and died.
Pàgina 8 - To overcome or to best an opponent is to "take the wind out of his sails." To be ready for anything is to be "always on deck," and so on ad infinitttm. Some day, perhaps, if you are an old-time Nantucketer, you "tackle up" the horse and "all rigged out" you "cruise down along." A "mate" recognizes you by "the cut of your jib," and you are "hailed" with the query, "where you bound?" Replying that you are "bound to the south'ard" or to the "east'ard," as the case may be, you are urged to "heave to