Here are the quotations for this week (August 24th to 30th):
1. ...a spritsail broke out forward and a handy driver aft; and she
threaded her way through the shipping to her berth at the quay as quietly
as a veiled woman slips through a bazaar.
2. Imagine a respectable charwoman in the tights of a ballet dancer
rolling drunk along the streets, and you will come to some notion of the
appearance of that nine-hundred-ton well-decked once schooner-rigged cargo
boat...
3. The low-sided schooner was naturally on most intimate terms with her
surroundings. They saw little of the horizon, save when she topped a
swell; and usually she was elbowing, fidgeting, and coaxing her steadfast
way through gray, gray-blue, or black hollows, laced across and across
with streaks of shivering foam.
The sources of last week's extracts (August 17th to 23rd) are as follows:
1. (...'I don't mind the trouble so much, though that was bad enough; but
what I resent is this showing up in print...') This is from "Pig" in Plain
Tales from the Hills.
2. (...'You hit hard ... His own people think he's mad.' ) This is from
"The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat" in A Diversity of Creatures
3. ('...Look at her from here and tell us how many spots you count now'.)
This is from "Beauty Spots" in Limits and Renewals.
Good wishes to all, John R
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