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-"Yah! Don't talk to me about your new-fangled ships with their new-fangled patents!" exclaimed a stout-set, red-faced, grizzled man as he munched his cheese and biscuit and washed it down with copious draughts of rum and water. "Wood's good enough for me," he continued, in a rumbling, husky tone of voice. "I'm sick o' the sight o' your flash steel clippers with their double-barrelled yards and double-barrelled skippers."
-"Meaning me and my ship, I suppose, Captain Bolger?" asked a tall, fair, gentlemanly-looking man dressed in a fashionably cut suit of tweed, tan shoes, and straw hat with broad blue riband.