Cappy Ricks, Or, The Subjugation of Matt PeasleyH.K. Fly Company, 1916 - 349 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aboard Antofagasta ashore barkentine Retriever berth Blue Star Navigation boat cablegram called Cape Town Cappy replied Cappy Ricks Cappy's Captain Grant Captain Matt Captain Peasley cargo cent charter parties chief mate command creosote crew declared desk discharge dollars a day fellow fight fire Florry freight give going Grays Harbor Hands And Feet Hudner hundred dollars Kelton Kjellin knew laughed letter loaded looked lumber MacCandless manager master mate's Matt answered Matt Peasley Matt replied Matt's Matthew Peasley McBride Mike minute Morrow & Company Murphy Narcissus never owners Pacific Shipping Company Panama passenger Peasley's port queried Quickstep round sail sailor San Francisco schooner scoundrel Seattle second mate shingles Skinner skipper Star Navigation Company steamer telegram tell there's thing third mate Thomaston Tillicum Unicorn vessel voyage waiting wired young
Popular passages
Page 293 - I know not what course others may pursue, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Page 268 - Army continued to pay a flat $2,500 bonus or. as it has previously, the $1,500 bonus to everyone so long as he met the basic entry qualifications, I believe your response was that you could not scientifically evaluate the man and therefore you did not want to be placed in the position of having to make a decision as to the amount of bonus he should be paid. Now, do you not, when you hire civilian personnel, make precisely this decision within the Army. You take a college graduate and you grant him...
Page 290 - Company defaulted on me, and I was at sea when the other payment fell due. However, you had your recourse. You could have canceled the charter on me. That was a chance I had to take. "Why didn't you grab the ship away from me ? If you had done that you would be in the clear to-day instead of up...
Page 71 - What the hell !" Day and night Matt Peasley drove her into it. He stood far off More until he ran out of the sou'east trades, fiddled around two days in light airs and then picked up the nor'east trades ; drove her well into the north, hauled round and came romping up to Grays Harbor bar seventynine days from Cape Town. A bar tug, ranging down the coast, hooked on to him and snaked him in.
Page 289 - I had diverted the steamer to San Diego for orders, and in the interim, unless the Panama Railroad guaranteed me by cable immediately sixty per cent, of the through-freight rate for the Tillicum, and a return cargo to San Francisco, I would decline to send the Tillicum to Panama, but would, on the...
Page 284 - ... all up," Matt continued sadly. "It destroyed completely my faith in human nature and demonstrated beyond a doubt that there is no such thing in this world as fair play in business. It's like a waterfront fight. You just get your man down and everything goes — kicking, biting, gouging, knee-work !" Matt sighed dolorously and drew from his vest pocket a scrap of paper. "Just listen to this for a message !" He continued. "Just imagine how nice you'd feel, Mr. Ricks, if you were skippering a boat...
Page 9 - ... warmth, and picturesque wickedness. CHARLES GD ROBERTS THE HEART OF THE ANCIENT WOOD A story, exciting, romantic, humorous, of wild and dangerous life in the Canadian forests. C. FOX SMITH SEA SONGS AND BALLADS, 1917-1922 WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY PHIL W. SMITH A series of salt-water ballads by a lady whose knowledge of ships and the men who go down to the sea in them is so remarkable as to be almost clairvoyant.
Page 282 - I love the boy," said Cappy ; "but in the present case, Skinner, I haven't any heart. A chunk of anthracite coal is softer than that particular organ this morning. Be sure to show Matt in the minute he comes up from the dock.
Page 135 - They admit that the complainant had rendered an account charging a commission of two and a half per cent. on all the moneys which...
Page 3 - Who skippered the first five-masted schooner ever built, brought her, on that first voyage, through the worst typhoon that ever blew, and upon arriving off the Yang Tse Kiang River for the first time in his adventurous career, decided he could not trust a Chinese pilot, and established a record by sailing her up himself!