【生活常识教科书】FISHERMAN’S_LUCK(渔夫的幸运).pdfVIP

更多好书请点击 FISHERMANS LUCK AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGS FISHERMANS LUCK AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGS by Henry van Dyke DEDICATION TO MY LADY GRAYGOWN 1 更多好书请点击 FISHERMANS LUCK AND SOME OTHER UNCERTAIN THINGS FISHERMANS LUCK Has it ever fallen in your way to notice the quality of the greetings that belong to certain occupations? There is something about these salutations in kind which is singularly taking and grateful to the ear. They are as much better than an ordinary good day or a flat how are you? as a folk-song of Scotland or the Tyrol is better than the futile love-ditty of the drawing- room. They have a spicy and rememberable flavour. They speak to the imagination and point the way to treasure-trove. There is a touch of dignity in them, too, for all they are so free and easy--the dignity of independence, the native spirit of one who takes for granted that his mode of living has a right to make its own forms of speech. I admire a man who does not hesitate to salute the world in the dialect of his calling. How salty and stimulating, for example, is the sailormans hail of Ship ahoy! It is like a breeze laden with briny odours and a pleasant dash of spray. The miners in some parts of Germany have a good greeting for their dusky trade. They cry to one who is going down the shaft, Gluck auf! All the perils of an underground adventure and all the joys of seeing the sun again are compressed into a word. Even the trivial salutation which the telephone has lately created and claimed for its peculiar use