spirit in In Bad Company
worth nearly £1000, was exciting enough. The crew, like shearers of the present day, were proverbially hard to manage. They did not receive wages, but a share in the net profits—a 'lay,' as it was called. The ship was, in fact, a floating co-operative society. This did not prevent them—for human na…
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- In Bad Company, and other stories; Rolf Boldrewood
- Published
- 1901; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
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- Federation Era
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- Australia (Australia): B
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worth nearly £1000, was exciting enough. The crew, like shearers of the present day, were proverbially hard to manage. They did not receive wages, but a share in the net profits—a 'lay,' as it was called. The ship was, in fact, a floating co-operative society. This did not prevent them—for human nature is weak—from committing acts distinctly opposed to the spirit as well as the letter of the agreement. They got drunk when they had the chance. They occasionally mutinied. They resisted the mate and defied the captain. They proposed to take savage maidens for their dusky brides, and to live lives devoid of care in The Islands. It.
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