[All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake by Oliver Optic]@TWC D-Link bookAll Aboard; or, Life on the Lake CHAPTER VI 9/9
Orders should be obeyed with judgment," continued Captain Sedley. "That's a fact.
I could tell a yarn about that," added Uncle Ben.
"When I was in the old Varsayles, bound round the Horn--" "Another time we will hear your yarn, Ben," interposed Captain Sedley. "We will go over and see Tony now, and congratulate him on the honors the Butterfly has won.
Haul in the gib sheet, Ben." "Ready--pull!" said Frank. "Who protested now, Master Charles Hardy ?" asked Little Paul, as he good-naturedly punched the forward youth in the ribs. "Circumstances alter cases," replied Charles, sagely, as he bent on his oar. "Fact! but they altered them when the deed was done, not now, when you have found out that it was all right.".
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