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The dramatic final chapters of Shanghaied in which the hated crimpers come aboard, sing and play melodeons and finally our hero makes his escape.
‘And thus they volleyed up cunningly, persuasively to our men. The spiders and the flies.
‘Yes apparently Molly Fortune ashore waited feverishly to kiss their dry and salt-cracked lips. (She would kiss them for one night perhaps, and then poor Jack, Shanghaied again, with his fabulously-paid shore job yet ahead, and the night as dark as Erebus, would awaken to find the relentless arms of Father Neptune once more closely entwined about him; sans bag, sans money, sans respect, sans everything. Done again! Doped again – his sole posession “a dead horse”!)’
For the rest of this series of posts:
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 1
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 2
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 3
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 4
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 5
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 6
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 7
