We were in the West Indies in a boat bringing the bumboat woman aboard--well, she started to climb up the rope ladder and this fellow thought he'd lay his hand on her ankle.
I remember it best by a circular handed out by "Gumersindo Alejandro, Bumboat Business.
I've expended all my money in buying clothes of this good lady here," explained Downy, pointing to the fat, oldbumboat woman.
Captain Gordon, who was the admiral's flag captain, spoke to him about the poor watermen and bumboatwomen being robbed of their money by our starting so suddenly; but he could get no satisfaction from old Charley.
Then the bumboat shoved off to return to the shore, and in fifteen minutes Lee stood upon foreign soil for the first time.
All day they lay quiet, as the captain did not return and there were no orders to begin to discharge, but toward evening a bumboat came off, with fresh bread, fruits and other things to sell to the crew.
In the bumboat was a boy of about Diego's age, whom he recognized as an old acquaintance and playmate, and who seemed very much surprised at seeing him on board the American vessel.
You mean that scamp, Peter, who goes in the bumboat with old Mother Chopper.
Perhaps you would like to set up a bumboat on your own account?
She was the widow of a boatswain, who had set her up in the bumboat business with some money he had acquired a short time before his death, and she had continued it ever since on her own account.
Want the app'intment of bumboatman in or'nary to this here schooner, eh?
Soft bread sold by the bumboat man, a kind of sea costermonger who trades with ships in port.
How far that may be true I know not, but there was a likeness between us; and my mother, who was a very pretty woman, attended his ship many years before as a bumboat girl.
We have but a poor dinner to-day, for the bumboat woman disappointed me.
A few days after I came on board, I purchased some tarts of the bumboat woman, as she is called; I wished to pay for them, but she had no change, and very civilly told me she would trust me.
She had been a bumboat woman for six years, and had made a great deal of money.
Stopping everybody's leave, though, unfortunately happened to be a necessary precaution, and communication with the shore was limited to the visits of the bumboat and washermen.
The poor bumboat woman has gipsy blood in her veins, and she can read destinies.
I, too, thought of the bumboat woman, but gave up hope of aid from her, seeing how she is watched.
Soon the sailors welcome on board Little Buttercup, a Portsmouth bumboat woman who has come to sell her wares, and who is hailed as "the rosiest, the roundest and the reddest beauty in all Spithead.
Ralph claims his Josephine, while the fallen Corcoran links his future with that of the bumboat woman, Little Buttercup.
A few days after I came onboard, I purchased some tarts of the bumboat woman, as she is called; I wished to pay for them, but she had no change, and very civilly told me she would trust me.
Naturally, being a bumboat woman, she had her basket on her arm.
Poll Pineapple=, the bumboat woman, once sailed in seaman’s clothes with Lieutenant Belaye (2 syl.
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