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Tales of the clipper ships is a fiction work by Smith, C. Fox. Its subjects include Clipper ships.
Tales of the clipper ships is a work by Smith, C. Fox. Its subjects include Clipper ships.
From the opening pages: “The knot of frowsy females--that strange and ghoulish sisterhood which frequents such dismal spots as faithfully as dramatic critics the first nights of theatres--who stood monotonously rocking perambulators on their back wheels outside the cemetery gates, were unanimously of opinion that it had been a skinny show. Indeed, Mrs. Wilkins, who was by way of considering herself what reporters like to call the “doyenne” of the gathering, said as much by way of consolation to her special crony Mrs. Pettefer, coming up hot and breathless, five minutes too late for the afternoon’s entertainment.”
