Cappy Ricks
Peter B. Kyne (1880-1957) was a novelist and prolific short story writer. He wrote about ranchers and loggers, businessmen and seamen, with equal adeptness.
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"How dare you contradict me?" the Old Man growled. "I tell you, you don't know what you are yet, barring the fact that you're an American, and the only one, with the exception of myself, in the whole damned Scowegian crew. Do you think you could get away with a bosun's job?"
