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“FRISCO” 1

Choosing a Ship--Signing on--Don Henderson--At a Seaman’s Tailor--First Day’s Work--Cleaning the Stringers--Sailors _v._ Base-ballers at Cricket--The Seaman’s Institute--My Carriboo Bag--A Sailors’ Concert--Emptying the Bilges--The _Marlboro’ Hill’s_ Crew of Landlubbers--Yankee Brutality at Sea--Chipping--Johnsen, the Swede.