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My stars, wouldn't I like to put them all to sea under Bully Waterman, [24] or let 'em learn their trade in an opium clipper with a Down East Yankee skipper and a Scotch owner -- you hear that, you Port Mahon bumboatman, you?
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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My stars, wouldn't I like to put them all to sea under Bully Waterman, [24] or let 'em learn their trade in an opium clipper with a Down East Yankee skipper and a Scotch owner -- you hear that, you Port Mahon bumboatman, you?
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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"Oh, I don't know -- sort of half-bred, long-shore chap -- looks something between a bumbailey and a bumboatman."
Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Frederick Marryat 1820
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