The Belted Seas by Arthur Willis Colton
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Jamaica to Portate. But before that time Pete was picked up by a
rowboat, and came back to Portate and Ferdinand Street. He and Ferdinand Street were very mad. It was a street occupied by negroes, and Sadler wasn't popular there. He came up to the _Helen Mar_ the afternoon of the day that Pete went out of the harbour, and lay in a hammock on deck, where one could look down past the fruit trees toward the town and the mouth of the Jiron. He was making a requiem for Pete Hillary, such as he thought he ought to do under those circumstances, though the requiem was no good and the tune vicious. "Pete Hillary," it began, "Pete Hillary, I make for you This lonesome, sad complaint. Alive you wa'nt no use, 'tis true, And dead you prob'ly ain't. "Pete Hillary, Pete Hillary, I don't know where you are. Here's luck to you, Pete Hillary, Beyond the harbour bar." Just then Irish came running up the path, and climbed the ladder on deck, and he cried: "It's a warrant for ye, Kid I Run! Oh, wirra! What did ye do it for?" He was distracted. Sadler paid no attention. He only twanged his banjo, and sang casual poetry, and Little Irish ran on: |
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