The other would bay from the stern through the rain--couldn't see him--couldn't make it out--some of his filthy jargon.

Yap! yap! Bow-ow-ow-ow-ow! Yap! yap! It was sweet to hear them; it kept me alive, I tell you.

It saved my life.

At it they went, as if trying to drive me overboard with the noise!.

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