[The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne]@TWC D-Link book
The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 9
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In a ship, why, there ain't nothing to it! You've got the law with you, that's what does it.

But put me down on this blame' beach alone, with nothing but a whip and a mouthful of bad words, and ask me to...

no, SIR! it's not good enough! I haven't got the sand for that!' cried Davis.

'It's the law behind,' he added; 'it's the law does it, every time!' 'The beak ain't as black as he's sometimes pynted,' observed Huish, humorously.
'Well, one got the law after a fashion,' said Attwater.

'One had to be a number of things.


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