Vulgar words in The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore (Page 1)
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Inconspicuous for his thrift or "forehandedness," it was nevertheless a common circumstance with him to have hundreds of pounds, in pay and prize-money, to his credit at his bankers, the Navy Pay-Office; and though during a voyage he earned his money as hardly as a horse, and was as poor as a church mouse, yet the moment he stepped ashore he made it fly by the handful and squandered it, as the saying went, like an ass.
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Taylor was only a poor fisherman, and when he dared to make love to the pretty daughter of the Ramsgate Harbour-Master, that exalted individual, who entertained for the girl social ambitions in which fishermen's shacks had no place, resented his advances as insufferable impertinence.
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At length one of the Tars starts up and says: 'Damn ye, Jack!
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Damn the constable!
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Summarising the causes, direct and indirect, which led to the final scrapping of an engine that had been mainly instrumental in manning the fleet for a hundred years and more, and without which, whatever its imperfections, that fleet could in all human probability never have been manned at all, we find them to be substantially these:-- _(a)_ The demoralising effects of long-continued, violent and indiscriminate pressing upon the Fleet; _(b)_ Its injurious and exasperating effects upon Trade; _(c)_ Its antagonising effect upon the Nation; and _(d)_ Its enormous cost as compared with recruiting by the good-will of the People.