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igging, certain sails and an anchor or two, acted, at first, for the best interests of his
master. He led the fleet along the margin of the group until a convenient harbour was
found.‖ (The Crater, Ch. XVIII, p. 319/544, Aug. 1847)
2) In short, honest Jean Descloux was a fair sample of that homebred, upright
common-sense which seems to form the instinct of the mass, and which it is
gradually the fashion to deride in those circles in which mystification passes for
profound thinking, bold assumption for evidence, a simper for wit, particular personal
advantages for liberty, and in which it is deemed a mortal offence against good
manners to hint that Adam and Eve were the common parents of mankind.
(The Headsman, Introduction, p. 3/525, Sept. 1833: London;
October 1833: Philadelphia) Triple entry: cf. #35 ―In short‖ and
―John Maynard‖ – ―John,‖ #41.
3) We never tire of the Leman, but spend two or three hours every day in the boat.
Sometimes we row in front of the town, which literally stands in the water, in some
places, musing on the quaint old walls, and listening to the lore of honest John, who
moves two crooked oars as leisurely as a lady of the tropic utters, but who has seen
great events in his time. (Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine – Cooper Edition, Letter XIX, p.
183; 1836)
4) Watching an opportunity, the skiff of honest Jean was loaded with us and our
effects to the water‘s edge, and we embarked in the Leman, as she lay-to, in one of her
daily trips, bidding a final adieu to Vevey, after a residence of about five weeks.
(Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine – Cooper Edition, Letter XXVII,
p. 246; 1836)
5) Not long since I passed half an hour on the terrace, an amused witness of the perils
of a voyage across the Seine in a punt. The adventurers were a bourgeois, his wife,
sister, and child. Honest Pierre, the waterman, had conditioned to take the whole
party to the island opposite, and return them safe to the main, for the modicum of five
sous. The old fox invariable charged me a franc for the same service.
(Gleanings in Europe: France – Cooper Edition, Letter XVI,
p. 194; 1837)
B) HONEST + [BOATMAN – BOAT-STEERER – MARINER – [SHIP]MATE – SAILOR –
SALT – SEAMAN – TAR]
I. BOATMAN:
1) ―…, it may be better to let the honest boatman tell his story in his own way.‖
(Wing-and-Wing – CSPCT, Vol. 22, Ch. XV, p. 175, 1842)
2) ―No honest boatman loves to see a man stowed in a cruiser‘s hold, like a thief
caged in his prison;…‖ (The Water-Witch – Michigan Historical Reprint Series, Ch. IV,
p. 52, May 1830)
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