What kind of know-how do you get working as a deckhand on a starboat?
He'd been a deckhand on one of the big starships and had broken too early to be entitled to a pension.
The Cajan crew rowed up to where Milt Rogers and Crump and the black deckhand were watching by a pool.
But he continued to shake his hairy fist at the deckhand and roar his anathemas upon the flower-choked bayou.
After a while the black deckhand looked questioningly up at the master.
At that moment a deckhandcame up to where Nat stood talking to the purser.
So it is--every word," put in the second deckhand who had been summoned.
Get to the speaking tube and direct Mr. Costigan to send the extra deckhand down here on the jump.
Then we'll put Bickson and his own deckhand in the power launch and send 'em around to cruise to port of the 'Victor.
Sherrill had told him their names; they were the mate, the assistant engineer, a deckhand and Father Perron, the priest who had been a passenger but who had stayed with the crew till the last.
A deckhand or two stood by, eyeing me curiously as I heaved myself on deck.
A sternwheel deckhandis not an attractive person, as a rule, and I suppose I looked the part, aggravated considerably by my discolored optic and bruised face.
In the present tale we have a youth of sturdy qualities who elects to follow the calling of a deckhand on a Hudson River steamboat, doing his duty faithfully day by day, and trying to help others as well as himself.
And I am Randy Thompson, a deckhand on the Hudson River steamboat Helen Shalley.
RANDY OF THE RIVER Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand Life on a river steamboat is not so romantic as some young people may imagine.
The bully and thief swung around on his heel and looked at the deckhand in perplexity.
This opened Randy's eyes to what his fellow-deckhand was driving at.
I take an interest in that young deckhand of yours--he has done me several small favors from time to time.
It was short and to the point and read in part as follows: "All I can offer you at present is the position of a deckhand on my steamboat, the Helen Shalley.
The deckhandbrought a glass of water from the adjoining lavatory and Charles washed down some of the tablets.
Regan whistled up a deckhand and a ship's officer of some sort, who arrived with a medicine chest.
It came when Lee grimaced at him and called the deckhand in a feeble murmur.
He and a sturdy deckhand helped Tollemache and Ingersoll with the sweeps, which were now to be used as oars, while the others carried the woman to the cabin, and helped their disabled shipmates to make the descent.
A friend of mine, skipper of a Hull trawler, missed a deckhand one day, and no one knew what had become of him.
It seemed that he had been something besides a deckhand in his life; and his past experience in roping cattle in the West enabled him to use a lariat equal to any vaudeville entertainer.
Do we continue to let that ex-deckhand in on our fortunes?
While all this was going on a deckhand had reeved a block and tackle through the end of the cargo gaff and passed it to the winch.
When all was in readiness, Captain Scraggs incontinently "fired" his deckhandand engineer and inducted aboard a new crew, carefully selected for their filibuster virtues by Scab Johnny himself.
The lone deckhand emerged from a hole in the freight forward whither he had retreated to escape the vegetable barrage put over by Captain Scraggs when McGuffey left the ship.
Fire," he bawled as the Maggie rested an instant in the trough of the sea--and a deckhand jerked the lanyard.
The two guns came out of the hold in jig time, and while Scraggs and one deckhand opened the after hold and got out ammunition for the guns, Mr. Gibney, assisted by the other deckhand, proceeded to put one of the guns together.
Old Neils, "the squarehead" deckhand of the green-pea trade!
I was duly appointeddeckhand on one of the tugs, powerfully engined but slightly ancient.
