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Article: Tugboat Annie's hot cargo. (short story)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- April 1, 1991
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TUGBOAT ANNIE'S HOT CARGO
Under a full Pacific moon the little Inland Passage harbor of Port Chilkat was the scene of tranquil beauty, disturbed only by the splash of a fish, a chugging purse seiner, the faint nostalgic wail and beat of a shore dance band, and the raucous hawking of Capt. Horatio Bullwinkle, master and owner of the big salvage tug Salamander, as he leaned over the fantail rail and spat in the eye of an inquisitive crab.
"Sore?" he rasped angrily as he stared again into the flabby, impassive face of Jake, the vessel's paunchy mate. "Why wouldn't I be sore? Look!"--and he pointed to another powerful deep-water tug alongside the fuel-oil ...