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The boys had a canny ear for the sounds of "good" ships. They knew them by the note of the horns.
They might be bunging out a barrel of wine, or picking up peanuts, or lying on the breakwater when one of the good ships (ships whose crews were friendly and gave the beach boys food) signaled its coming in. One would shout, tossing his cap into the air, "Oh, boy! That theah's a regular broad coming in! " And it would surely be one of their ships.