Over at The American Street, I've posted a chillingly stark passage I found in The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore, by John R. Hutchinson (1914) a book about the coercion by force of unwilling men into the armed forces, most particularly by the British Navy in the 18th century.
Can't imagine what it's alluding to...
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This post has been sans comments for too long now -- so I thought I'd leave you a message completely unrelated to the American Street thing.
Being not busy and bored -- I went back looking through Wolcott's posts to find out who the "Magnolia Blossoms" were from March. Don't ask, things like this linger in my mind for no apparent reason. I just always like that reference.
Anyway -- it was YOU! I didn't know you back then.
That's all. Ta-ta.
Yeah, Wolcott, uh, didn't hurt the old unique-visitor numbers very much. Like watching a Saturn V rocket taking off -- for a weekend. Quite heady stuff. I mentally composed my first Pulitzer acceptance speech....
"I mentally composed my first Pulitzer acceptance speech...."
I can totally relate. Kind of. I just dream of being a Wolcott Magnolia Blossom -- not even for the traffic either.
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