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Ulysses

—Thank you, the sailor said.
He deposited the quid in his gob and, chewing and
with some slow stammers, proceeded:
—We come up this morning eleven o’clock. The

threemaster Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks. I
shipped to get over. Paid off this afternoon. There’s my
discharge. See? D. B. Murphy. A. B. S.
In confirmation of which statement he extricated from
an inside pocket and handed to his neighbour a not very
cleanlooking folded document.
—You must have seen a fair share of the world, the
keeper remarked, leaning on the counter.
—Why, the sailor answered upon reflection upon it,
I’ve circumnavigated a bit since I first joined on. I was in
the Red Sea. I was in China and North America and
South America. We was chased by pirates one voyage. I
seen icebergs plenty, growlers. I was in Stockholm and the
Black Sea, the Dardanelles under Captain Dalton, the best
bloody man that ever scuttled a ship. I seen Russia.
Gospodi pomilyou. That’s how the Russians prays.
—You seen queer sights, don’t be talking, put in a
jarvey.
—Why, the sailor said, shifting his partially chewed
plug. I seen queer things too, ups and downs. I seen a

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