human
Looks lonesomer than ever, don't it? said Captain Crowe, pensively.
gpt
I vow it's a shame to see such a harbor as this, an' think o' all the back country, an' how things were goin' on here in our young days.
human
growled brave little Captain Witherspoon.
gpt
They've taken the wrong course for the country's good--some o' those folks in Washington. When the worst of 'em have stuffed their own pockets as full as they can get, p'r'aps they'll see what else can be done, and all catch hold together and shore up the shipping int'rists. I see every night, when I go after my paper the whole sidewalk full o' louts that ought to be pushed off to sea with a good smart master; they're going to the devil ashore, sir. Every way you can look at it, shippin' 's a loss to us.