Mudlark

"Mudlark" by contrast is a neat little story by Pat Cadigan.

Gimme That Ol' Time SF Karen Burnham 2009

So I shipped as mate on the _Mudlark_, bound from London to wherever the captain might think it expedient to sail.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

_Mudlark_ that she took in water like a teetotaler; then it appeared to get relief directly.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

This was Captain Abersouth, formerly of the _Mudlark_ -- as good a seaman as ever sat on the taffrail reading a three volume novel.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

The owners of the _Mudlark_ had grown wise in their generation, and now let him do pretty much as he pleased, carrying such cargoes as he fancied to ports where the nicest women were.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

_Mudlark_ labored very much -- far more, indeed, than the crew did; for these innocents had discovered in possession of one of their number a pair of leather-seated trousers, and would do nothing but sit and play cards for them; in a month from leaving port each sailor had owned them

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

On the voyage of which I write he had taken no cargo at all; he said it would only make the _Mudlark_ heavy and slow.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

Now look at me; I was on the books of the _Catamaran_, one of the old seventy-fours, in '96; I did my duty then and always; was never in the black book or laid up sick; was always rough and ready for any work that came to hand; and when I went into the _Mudlark_ as lieutenant in year' 9, little Bobby Howard had just joined the old _Cat. _ as a young middy.

The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

He had resuscitated Lord Legbail, now Earl of Loosefish; imported Sir Harry Blueun from somewhere near Geneva, whither he had retired on marrying his mistress; and resuscitated Lord Mudlark, who had broken his neck many years before from his tandem in Piccadilly.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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