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Nautilus

CHAPTER V
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Come out, I say!" He wrestled fiercely with an enormous Britisher, disguised as a stalk of pig-weed, and, after a breathless tussle, dragged him bodily out of the ground, and flung his headless corpse on the neighbouring pile of weeds.
"Ha! that was fine!" cried the boy.

"I shouldn't be a bit surprised if that was George the Third himself; it was ugly enough for him.

Come up here! hi! down with you! Now Jack the Giant-Killer is coming to help me, and the British have got Cormoran (this was before Jack killed him), and there's going to be a terrible row." But General Washington waves his gallant sword, and calls to his men, and says,-- "Good morning, sir! you make a busy day, I see." It was not General Washington who spoke.

It was the Skipper, and he was leaning on the gate and looking at the boy John and smiling.

"You make a busy day," he repeated.


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