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“The master and the mate, and some half o’ the men, behaved as they should; stewards and all, and so did the stewardess. Though she wasn’t a man, she was as good as one.

But then, you’ll say, she was used to the sea, so I won’t say so much about her.”

— Richard Rowe, “The History of a Lifeboat: by her Coxswain,” in Good Things: A Picturesque Magazine for Boys and Girls (1876), 127 (Image on 128).