Tales of the clipper ships

TALES OF THE CLIPPER SHIPS
BY C. FOX SMITH WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY PHIL W. SMITH
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1926 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
“The End of an Argument” and “Seattle Sam Signs On” have appeared in the “Blue Peter,” to whose Editor the customary acknowledgments are hereby made.

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE “MAID OF ATHENS”


OLD Thomas Featherstone was dead: he was also buried.
The knot of frowsy females—that strange and ghoulish sisterhood which frequents such dismal spots as faithfully as dramatic critics the first nights of theatres—who stood monotonously rocking perambulators on their back wheels outside the cemetery gates, were unanimously of opinion that it had been a skinny show. Indeed, Mrs. Wilkins, who was by way of considering herself what reporters like to call the “doyenne” of the gathering, said as much by way of consolation to her special crony Mrs. Pettefer, coming up hot and breathless, five minutes too late for the afternoon’s entertainment.
“No flars” (thus Mrs. Wilkins), “not one! Not so much as a w’ite chrysant’! You ’aven’t missed much, me dear, I tell you.”