Initiations e-bog

Excerpt: "e;"e;Ships!"e; exclaimed an elderly seaman in clean shore togs. "e;Ships"e; - and his keen glance, turning away from my face, ran along the vista of magnificent figure-heads that in the late seventies used to overhang in a serried rank the muddy pavement by the side of the New South Dock - "e;ships are all right; it's the men in 'em..."e;"e;