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One day I was by the docks, where some people were busy and some were like me, loafing or looking for a berth; and I came on a neat-looking, three-masted ship, named the _Good Sister_, which appeared to me a kindly name. She was being overhauled by the carpenters. I asked one of them, "Where's the captain?"
"She ain't got any," he says. "It's the owners are doing it."