Old Man (GBE 73)
“Ah, there you are. I didn’t think you’d come today. It does an old man good to see young people now and again. When you are the oldest sailor on the dock, you never know if you’ll get another chance. You did bring the beer? Good. ” “Your mother well, I trust? You know her and I go back many years. When I first met her, she was about your age and I was still bit older. I was working down on the docks and she was a waitress in a diner. I’d get off and have a bit of supper. I didn’t have a girl then. I had lost mine to fever a few years earlier" “Anyway, your mother would serve up me up stew and beer. I always wanted to ask her out, but never could get up the nerve. She was a pretty one, back then. Then I caught mate’s position on a steamer and left town for a while. It was about a year and half later I was back. By then she had left the diner and gotten mar...