The Archive · 1888

Miscellaneous

THE BATTLE OF FREIGHTS

Four pounds was the rate fixed for Teas per Moyune, Calm and bright was the weather brought in with the Moon* When all of a sudden appeared—in a Huff One who troubled the waters, and made them quite rough, In place of the a calm raged the fiercest.00n, And war to the knife was declared, about noon.

"What Four pounds for that craft; thirty bob's quite enough So into my cargo-boat jamb all your stuff." Yours, Hankow, 16th May.

Now Moon, 13th May.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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