sometimes bordering on the ursine,
repelled the juniors, Billy, undeterred
thereby, would make advances, revering him as a salt hero, never
passing the venerable brave old Agammenon-man
without a salutation marked b by that
respect which is seldom lost on the aged
however crabbed at times or whatever their station in life.
There was a fantastic
vien of dry humor, or what not, in the
mast-man; and, weather in freak of
patriarchal hum irony touching Billy's
youth and athletic frame, or for some other and more recondite reason,
from the first invariably in addressing him he always substituted
Baby for Billy. While the old man's eccentricities,
sometimes bordering on the ursine,
repelled the juniors, Billy, undeterred
thereby, would make advances, revering him as a salt hero, never
passing the venerable brave old Agammenon-man
without a salutation marked b by that
respect which is seldom lost on the aged
however crabbed at times or whatever their station in life.
There was a fantastic
vien of dry humor, or what not, in the
mast-man; and, weather in freak of
patriarchal hum irony touching Billy's
youth and athletic frame, or for some other and more recondite reason,
from the first invariably in addressing him he always substituted
Baby for Billy. While the old man's eccentricities,
Transcribed by: John Bryant