Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . strils, and which combined the smellof onions, stale tobacco, whisky, etc., that he wasdirectly over the cabin; and looking down intothe aforesaid hole, he discovered that its twosides were occupied by bunks containing somevery dirty bed-clothing, while a table, on wliichwere the remains of the mornings meal, inter-spersed with a couple of old clay pipes, a paperof smoking tobacco, a jug, two or three crackedcuj)S, one large and two small plates, and severalother culinary articles, stood against the bulk-head which separated the c
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . strils, and which combined the smellof onions, stale tobacco, whisky, etc., that he wasdirectly over the cabin; and looking down intothe aforesaid hole, he discovered that its twosides were occupied by bunks containing somevery dirty bed-clothing, while a table, on wliichwere the remains of the mornings meal, inter-spersed with a couple of old clay pipes, a paperof smoking tobacco, a jug, two or three crackedcuj)S, one large and two small plates, and severalother culinary articles, stood against the bulk-head which separated the cabin from the old chest and a three-legged stool closed thelist of furniture, unless we reckon in the cate-gory an infant, about three months old, whichwas sprawling about on the damp floor, crowingat the sunlight which struggled into the noisomehole from above. Such was the summer resi-dence of Captain Blivens and his family. Hehoused them during the winter in a log-cabinnear the Summit, at Lake Hopatcong. The boats are constructed in two parts, for. BOY OVKEBOAED. AMONG THE NAIL-MAKERS. 140 convenience in going over the planes, and are Ihinged together in the centre by a simple ar-rangement which permits their being separatedin a moment. They arc open above, except anarrow passage around the gunwale, a smallspace at the bow, and another at the stern,where the cabin is partitioned off by a bulk-liead. Midships, or where the two parts are |connected, a portion of each is floored over, andon this space the feed-boxes are kept, as well asa small cylindrical stove of sheet-iron for cook-ing. They arc from ninety to ninety-five feetlong, and of about sixty to sixty-five tons bur-den. Their nomenclature is as varied as theorthography and tastes of their captains or own-ers. Among many others wliich struck ourhero as being original, and peculiar too per-haps, were the Bluddy Pirate^ the Wild L-ish-rnan, the Bridje-smasher, the Larger Bier, etc.,etc. A running fire of small t
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