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Cap’n Warren’s Wards

CHAPTER VI
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Might just as well be here as anywhere.

Don't think another thing about it." "Have you lunched, Captain Warren ?" "No, come to think of it, I ain't.

I've been kind of busy this forenoon, and a little thing like dinner--luncheon, I mean--slipped my mind.
Though 'tain't often I have those slips, I'm free to say.

Ho! ho! Abbie--she's my second cousin, my housekeeper--says I'm an unsartin critter, but there's two things about me she can always count on, one's that my clothes have always got a button loose somewheres, and t'other's my appetite." He laughed, and Sylvester laughed with him.
"Well," observed the lawyer, "I'm not sure that I couldn't qualify on both of those counts.

At any rate I'm sure of my appetite.


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