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TALES OF THE CLIPPER SHIPS

TALES OF THE
CLIPPER SHIPS

BY
C. FOX SMITH

WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY
PHIL W. SMITH



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1926


PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

	PAGE
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE “MAID OF ATHENS”	3
THE END OF AN ARGUMENT	71
ORANGES	91
SEATTLE SAM SIGNS ON	107
PADDY DOYLE’S BOOTS	123
THE UNLUCKY “ALTISIDORA”	133

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THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE “MAID
OF ATHENS”

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TALES OF
THE CLIPPER SHIPS

THE LAST VOYAGE OFTHE “MAID OF
ATHENS”

I

OLD Thomas Featherstone was dead: he was also buried.

The knot of frowsy females—that strange and ghoulish sisterhood whichfrequents such dismal spots as faithfully as dramatic critics the firstnights of theatres—who stood monotonously rocking perambulators ontheir back wheels outside the cemetery gates, were unanimously ofopinion that it had been a skinny show. Indeed, Mrs. Wilkins, who was byway of considering herself what reporters like to call the “doyenne” ofthe gathering, said as much by way of consolation to her special cronyMrs.

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