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Excerpt from Southward Ho: And Other Essays
As I crossed the swing bridge I saw, lying in her accustomed berth, the schooner Eastre, as I had seen her many tirnes on her periodical visits, for this corner berth seemed hers by historic right, like the berths of the Dutch eel-schuyts in the Pool of London by Billingsgate Wharf. She looked just the same as ever, neither older nor younger, indeed She had reached that age when time seems to pass by unheeding and unheeded, as is often the case with hearty old women. Her grey mainsail ?apped loosely and untidily, with its square brown patch in the right-hand corner, as it always did when She was in dock; and her blue-jerseyed crew were disembarking her fami liar cargo of bundles of boardlike salted fish. Her sides, as usual, were almost guiltless of paint, and inclined to portliness; they bulged, unnaturally for a schooner, from a square stern, on which was painted in yellow letters on a blue ground.
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