Crossword-Solution: DOCKMEN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Four small boys, clad only in ship's belts, above which rose four sheepish heads and freckled faces, below which shifted and wriggled eight bare legs, stood in line at the gangway and suffered agonies of humiliation at the hands of crew and dockmen, grinning customs inspectors, coalpassers, and a newspaper photographer hunting a human-interest bit for a Sunday paper.

One of the women screamed at the silent ship--“Hallo, Jack!” without looking at any one in particular, and all hands looked at her from the forecastle head.--“Stand clear! Stand clear of that rope!” cried the dockmen, bending over stone posts.

The dockmen are violent, not hesitating to use their sticks, and you find yourself more than once in danger, although you strive to obey orders you do not understand very well, since they are shouted out in savage manner.

Here every one was busy--officers, sailors, dockmen; hatches were off and bales of lading and stores were being lowered down, and we were just standing together looking out for some one to show us our quarters and to carry down our chests, when the warning shouts came from aloft, and we had so narrow an escape of being laid low.

More than that, they say that there were two separate explosions occurring almost at the same time--one down on the railroad tracks and another in a storehouse quite a distance away." "Yes, we heard that, too, from one of the dockmen of the plant," answered Fred.