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Israel Potter

CHAPTER XX
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Why did you jump on board here, last night, from the enemy ?" "Jump on board, sir, from the enemy?
Why, sir, my station at general quarters is at gun No.

3, of the lower deck, here." "He's cracked--or else I am turned--or all the world is;--take him away!" "But where am I to take him, sir ?" said the master-at-arms.

"He don't seem to belong anywhere, sir.

Where--where am I to take him ?" "Take him-out of sight," said the officer, now incensed with his own perplexity.

"Take him out of sight, I say." "Come along, then, my ghost," said the master-at-arms.


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