Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 223
deck-beams spongy under foot, her wheel-framestwisted like abroken spiders-web. Here arethe half-sunkenhalves of someice-barge, cutclean in two bya liner. Here,heaving withthe tide, is anaged car-floatwith a watch-mans shantyon it, heapedwith its rustedboilers, its an-chors, cranes,gear-wheels,… … THE AUTHOR GOING DOWN IN A DIVER S SUM. steal the insurance. Wrecks spread all aboutus, and above them rise the masts and cranesof pontoons and pumping-craft, that seem, inthe shadows and desolation, like things of evilomen guarding their prey. Night is coming on. Lights show in thegreat city…
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