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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Tnent. His skin was of a swarthyhue—having been dyed, by exposure toall sorts of Aveather, to the color ofhorse-hide*—and seemed to cling to thebones which it covered as though it hadbeen shrunk, by the fiery qualities ofthe liquor he had drank, to the consist-ency of parchment. His face—whatwith its wrinkles and its frightful scar—would have repulsed the gaze of theobserver had it not been for the keen,jet-black eyes, which, set deep beneatha pair of overhanging brows, sparkledlike coals of fire. His costume—ifcostume that could be called whichbarely served to cover his nakedness—consisted of a felt hat, coat, shirt,pantaloons, and one boot—all of whichhad evidently seen long and arduousservice. Such was Captain Blivens, as firstseen by Neutral Tint from thebanks of the canal at MCainsville, AMONG THE NAIL-MAKERS. U7
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THE TEAM. where he and his companion, Sncll, had ar-rived a few moments previous with the inten-tion of taking passage on the canal for Boon-ton. Their object in selecting this mode of con-veyance was two-fold: first, to follow the orewhich they had seen raised from the bowels ofthe earth to the place of its manufacture; and,second, to study life on the canal, which prom-ised a new experience. The Sarsey Fanney was the first boat whosedestination was Boonton, and although the ap-pearance of her commander and his occupationat the moment they first beheld him was anything but prepossessing (he was busy in cursingand swearing at the propelling power of hisbarge, videlicit, a horse, a mule, and a Dutchboy about fourteen years old), yet they con-cluded to hail him and make known their de-sires. Stopping short in his vociferations, he eyedour friends for a moment, and after calling outin a stentorian voice to his team to who-oh,he demanded to know what the h— they want-ed to go to Boonton

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