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Bobby of the Labrador

CHAPTER XIII
6/11

"Another hour's sail, but time saved.

Lucky for you that we sights you, an' lucky for th' sick lad, an' lucky for me--lucky all around.

My eyes! 'Tis like t' be a lucky day." And so it came about that Bobby and Jimmy were presently aboard the _Good and Sure_, satisfying an accumulated and vast appetite upon Captain Higgles' good hardtack and tea, while the schooner laid her course for Itigailit Island.
An hour later, as the captain had predicted, the _Good and Sure_ came to off Abel Zachariah's fishing place, and almost before the anchor chains had ceased rattling Skipper Ed and Abel pulled alongside in a boat and were expressing their relief upon the safe return of the two lads, whose sudden and unexplained disappearance had puzzled them and caused them a deal of worry.
"I finds th' young scallawags driftin' around th' sea, and bearin' no course whatever," explained Captain Higgles, "an' I picks un up as salvage.

But I don't want un.

My eyes! I don't want un.


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