chebacco

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For my part, I was born on board a chebacco-man, and never could see the use of more land than now and then

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  • For my part, I was born on board a chebacco-man, and never could see the use of more land than now and then —  The Pilot
  • For my part, I was born on board a chebacco-man, and never could see the use of more land than now and then a small island, to raise a few vegetables, and to dry your fish--I'm sure the sight of it always makes me feel uncomfortable, unless we have the wind dead off shore I am more than half of your mind, that an island now and then is all the terra firma that a seaman needs It's reason and philosophy, sir," returned the sedate cock-swain; "and what land there is, should always be a soft mud, or a sandy ooze, in order that an anchor might hold, and to make soundings sartin. —  Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
 

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