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The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 3
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It's not possible you can enjoy this business.

Come,' and he reached out a timid hand, 'a few strokes in the lagoon--and rest!' 'I tell you, Herrick, I'm 'most tempted to answer you the way the man does in the Bible, and say, "Get thee behind me, Satan!"' said the captain.

'What! you think I would go drown myself, and I got children starving?
Enjoy it?
No, by God, I do not enjoy it! but it's the row I've got to hoe, and I'll hoe it till I drop right here.

I have three of them, you see, two boys and the one girl, Adar.

The trouble is that you are not a parent yourself.


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