Thursday, October 20

Sailor's Kit


"The Doctor's man, Vasserman, was mute as a bedbug, but not deaf or simple. He did right well with the ladies despite being dumb- I think it was because he worked double hard at it."

- James Cullen, Remembrances of Eight years before the Mast, 1834.











1 comment:

  1. Mute as a bedbug? Ah, that's what the card-on-a-string, that I noticed in earlier pictures is for!

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