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The pump-man had begun his story this evening while sitting with back to the rail and feet stretched out on the deck before him.

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The pump-man roomed with Jenkins, the third officer, in the superstructure, amidships.

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And yet it did seem for a moment as if the pump-man was to get no fair play, as if the bosun's adherents would overwhelm him as he stood there on the hatch.

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Yet there were those who favored the game-looking pump-man.

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The reorganized head clerk clicked his heels, wheeled, marched to his desk, and without delay signed John Kieran as pump-man for the Gulf voyage of the oil ship _Rapidan_.

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The pump-man had sympathy for Jenkins, but not so much that he would sit and listen while Jenkins talked himself to sleep; so, once he saw

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The pump-man, all the while he was talking, kept fitting his dies and cutting his threads.

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And the pump-man, in his skimpy, badly-fitting dungarees, though of good height, did not look to be much more than half the other's bulk.

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The pump-man stopped to pull out a handkerchief and wipe his forehead.

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The passenger stole a look at the pump-man, and ventured: "Kieran, there used to be, a few years ago, a sprinter, pole-vaulter, and jumper, competing under the name of Campbell in the Hibernian and Caledonian games up north, and you're a ringer for him."

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