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The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 4
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Now, Mr Hay, we'll pick watches, if you please.' 'All right,' said Herrick.
'You will please use "sir" when you address me, Mr Hay,' said the captain.

'I'll take the lady.

Step to starboard, Sally.' And then he whispered in Herrick's ear: 'take the old man.' 'I'll take you, there,' said Herrick.
'What's your name ?' said the captain.

'What's that you say?
Oh, that's no English; I'll have none of your highway gibberish on my ship.

We'll call you old Uncle Ned, because you've got no wool on the top of your head, just the place where the wool ought to grow.


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