I knew the man; he lived in a shanty-boat not far from my housea curious affair with shelves full of dishes and tinware.

Since they had thought it best not to try and fetch a heavy tent along with them they knew it would be necessary to construct some such brush shanty shelter every night unless they could find a convenient ledge under which a camp could be made.

To me, with "Two Years Before the Mast" and Clark Russell's galley yarns churning in my mind, it was sweeter far than ever siren voiced to lure her victims to their death, and rough and tarry as was the shanty-man, Caruso had never seemed to me such a glorious figure.

It is too late and stormy to go up to Shanty-town to seek for lodgings.

But his extempore train chose to stop at a forsaken shanty-village on the Potomac, for four mortal hours, at midnight.