DCHP-3

shantyman's smallpox

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Quotations

1965
Feet rather than fists were the principal weapons and many a riverman, beaten down in the onset, carried on his face and chest for the rest of his life the scars of"shantyman's smallpox"--the pits and punctures of caulks and cleats.