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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 7 A Daring Deed
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Then a pause, and one more note was struck.

The watchman's voice followed, from the hurricane deck-- 'Labboard lead, there! Stabboard lead!' The cries of the leadsmen began to rise out of the distance, and were gruffly repeated by the word-passers on the hurricane deck.
'M-a-r-k three!...

M-a-r-k three!...

Quarter-less three!...

Half twain!...


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