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The Cruise of the Shining Light
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My uncle, Nicholas Top, of Twist Tickle, was of a cut so grotesque that folk forgot their manners when he stumped abroad. Bowling through the streets of St. John’s, which twice a year he tapped with staff and wooden leg, myself in leading–bowling cheerily, with his last rag spread, as he said, and be damned to the chart–he left a swirling wake of amazement: craning necks, open mouths, round eyes, grins so frank, the beholders being taken unaware, that ’twas simple… More >>
The Cruise of the Shining Light
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