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ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip

YEAR
1893
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ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip

here were no ‘intermediates,’ no subdivisions. A very good table was kept, and the ‘dog-basket’ and ‘menavelings’ from it alone would have supplied the fo’c’stle twice over. But for these leavings a host of ill-fed, brass-bound apprentices, boys, and petty officers were ever on the watch—the former…

Record ID
1,526
Year
1,893
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
1526
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other Stories; John Arthur Barry
Published
1893
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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Public Domain Public Web

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here were no ‘intermediates,’ no subdivisions. A very good table was kept, and the ‘dog-basket’ and ‘menavelings’ from it alone would have supplied the fo’c’stle twice over. But for these leavings a host of ill-fed, brass-bound apprentices, boys, and petty officers were ever on the watch—the former knowing as crows, sharp as kites. Foremast Jack had not the ghost of a chance with them. Ever since she slipped along the ways the _Sardanapalus_ had borne the reputation of being a ‘hungry ship.’ More than half-a-dozen times had she hauled into dock with a collar of clean picked beef bones around her figure-head. It was currently.

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