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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III, you're up against the real thing now, sang out the man in the rigging. You won't mistreat Captain Jackson and Mr. Becker. Not much?not while they've got guns, you pack o' wolves. Now, Sinful, shut up, called the big giant; and, Seldom ?this to the Roman-nosed man in oil-skins? just lower that belayin'-pin. We'll talk this over with the skipper 'fore we take action. What does this mean, anyhow, Jackson ? he said, looking up at the captain. What does what mean ? answered the captain, slowly, ignoring the insolence in the use of his name without his title. Oh, you know us well enough. Why are we here, shanghaied in a bunch aboard your ship? Are you a party to it? Haven't you had enough o' this crowd? Candidly, I have. I know you all, though two or three appear to be missing?in jail, I suppose. But you wouldn't have signed with me if I had been in the shipping-office, and as for being a party to shanghaiing you, if such is the case, why?well, I'd go to a hotter region for a crew first. What do you want to live in the cabin ? We want you to turn back and put us ashore, said the spokesman, firmly. We didn't sign your articles, and you've no earthly right? Yes, they did, capt'n, interrupted the man in the rigging. Yesterday afternoon?they all signed. They were all drunk, but they signed. Get out your articles and you'll find their names, every one. The Roman-nosed man whirled in his tracks and sent the belaying-pin flying towards him, but it missed and went overboard. I haven't seen the articles since they were returned to me, answered the captain, and I don't know who signed. I merely paid a shipping-master for twenty-five men, and he signed and delivered them ?mostly drunk. If you signed my articles I am wi...
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