Excerpt: ... o' merit," said he, pointing with his mop like a showman to the line of figures before him. We drew near. "This here is Matt. Soames, master o' this vessel-an' he's dead." "Dead?" "Dead-drunk, that is. O the gifted man! Come up!" He thrust the mop in the fellow's heavy face. "There now! Did he move, did he wink? 'No, ' says you. O an accomplished drunkard!" He paus'd a moment; then stirr'd up No. 2, who open'd one eye lazily, and shut it again in slumber. "You saw? Open'd one eye, hey? That's Benjamin Halliday. ...
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Excerpt: ... o' merit," said he, pointing with his mop like a showman to the line of figures before him. We drew near. "This here is Matt. Soames, master o' this vessel-an' he's dead." "Dead?" "Dead-drunk, that is. O the gifted man! Come up!" He thrust the mop in the fellow's heavy face. "There now! Did he move, did he wink? 'No, ' says you. O an accomplished drunkard!" He paus'd a moment; then stirr'd up No. 2, who open'd one eye lazily, and shut it again in slumber. "You saw? Open'd one eye, hey? That's Benjamin Halliday. The next is a black man, as you see: a man of dismal color, and hath other drawbacks natural to such. Can the Aethiop shift his skin? No, but he'll open both eyes. See there-a perfect Christian, in so far as drink can make him." With like comments he ran down the line till he came to the last man, in front of whom he stepp'd back. "About this last-he's a puzzler. Times I put him top o' the list, an' times at the tail. That's Ned Masters, an' was once the Reverend Edward Masters, Bachelor o' Divinity in Cambridge College; but in a tavern there fell a-talking with a certain Pelagian about Adam an' Eve, an' because the fellow turn'd stubborn, put a knife into his waistband, an' had to run away to sea: a middling drinker only, but after a quart or so to hear him tackle Predestination! So there be times after all when I sets'n apart, and says, 'Drunk, you'm no good, but half-drunk, you'm priceless.' Now there's a man-" He dropp'd his mop, and, leading us aft, pointed with admiring finger to the helmsman-a thin, wizen'd fellow, with a face like a crab apple, and a pair of piercing grey eyes half hidden by the droop of his wrinkled lids. "Gabriel Hutchins, how old be you?" "Sixty-four, come next Martinmas," pip'd the helmsman. "In what state o' life?" "Drunk." "How drunk?" "As a lord!" "Canst stand upright?" "Hee-hee! Now could I iver do other?-a miserable ould worms to whom the sweet effects o' quantums be denied. When was I iver...
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