Running Free

"'Johnson?' I says--'Johnson?' an' reaches back to find somethin' t' heave at him. I was goin' to heave a cod at him, but Jack says: 'Don't waste that on him,' an' digs me out a...

He couldn't talk; he couldn't get to his feet. His C.P.O. friend--a game one, too--shook his fist at me across his body. "Only a week out of the hospital and you had to beat him...

William T. could never leave there with that dollar in his pocket. He made a great fellow of himself by buying drinks for a bunch of bums, and then I warped him in and grappled...

Bill did not stand watch at the masthead. His eyesight was good enough, but Bill's three hundred pounds climbing up the rigging four or five times a day to the masthead--the ski...

I arrived in Santacruz in the early evening, and as I stepped out of the carriage with the children the majordomo came rushing out from under the hotel portales and said: "Meesu...

"What they don't know will never hurt them. A man is no better off because he knows things!" She had heard that so often; and no girl is spending eight hours a day for two years...

Congressman Flavin was still aboard, but also was bursting with something to tell. "What d'y'know, Carlin--nine hundred and odd sailors aboard this ship and not home once in ten...

Larry, if he saw us, paid no attention to us; neither did he pay any attention to Carmen Whiffle when she stood at his elbow. "There's no changing nature, Nan," I said--"the mal...

"An' all this time the wicked General Balbeezo an' his bandit army is bringin' their guns down the mountainside 'n' preparin' to blow our ship outer water. An' by'n'by they're a...

But no sign from him, and I coughed again--the short double cough which is the signal among all males from Kamchatka to Punta Arenas, sailing east or west, north or south, great...

"Mr. Duncan, Peter didn't look like any magazine cover of a hero I've seen lately, but--sitting there on that bench awhile ago--did you take a look at Mrs. Pentle's face while h...

Before we left port there was a rumor flying that the Japs had wind of what we were trying to do; and perhaps that was the reason why when the battleship had trouble with her ma...

So we went to another place, and he happened to be a Jew and not a Moccasin. Not that he wouldn't like to be a member of that noble order; which made O'Brien and Haile warm up t...

The Honorable J. J. Flavin had never, not even when he was only ward leader and therefore much more disposed to humility than now, been able to reconcile Carlin's unworshipful t...

This book is remarkable for the variety of stories it contains and their characters, which include Continental immigrants, Central American soldiery, Gloucester fishermen, Missi...