Crossword-Solution: DONKEYMAN 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Ford had got a berth as donkeyman on a tramp steamer, and that steamer had gone down with all hands off the Cape: a judgment, the widow woman feared, for long years of contumacy, which had culminated in the wickedness of taking to the sea, and taking to it as a donkeyman--an immeasurable fall for a capable engine-fitter.

But there--in those seas--the incident was rare enough to resemble a special arrangement of a malevolent providence, which, unless it had for its object the killing of a donkeyman and the bringing of worse than death upon Jim, appeared an utterly aimless piece of devilry.

Then, when he has finished, each one comes up for catechism--carpenter, sailors, donkeyman, fireman, all in due order.

The Second Mate rushes to the fiddle-top, and shouts for "more steam"--the winch has stuck--and a howl from below tells him that the donkeyman is doing his best.

Bosun and donkeyman trudge aft and take the letters for the foc'sle, the mess-room steward deposits a letter in my lap, and I think of my friend.