The seashore book : Bob and Betty's summer with Captain Hawes (1912)
Smith, E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd), 1860-1943 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 46
a strenuous and hurly-burly affair, with much bustle,shouting, hauling, pushing, and pulling. The children, under Patseys lead,found a good point of vantage on top of some boxes, and watched the work. Busy stevedores, who had charge, were hurrying the longshoremen, whorolled barrels, and carried… … mate shouted orders, and everything, to the children, seemed confusion, but itwas orderly confusion, for the work was rapidly going ahead. The great quantityof goods which went aboard astonished Bob and Betty; they had never seen somany boxes, barrels, bales, and bags before. And yet this was only…
Sailing · Seashore
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