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The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 5
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'I couldn't sleep.

I'm knocked over with all your goodness.' 'Ah, no call me Uncle Ned no mo'!' cried the old man.

'No my name! My name Taveeta, all-e-same Taveeta King of Islael.

Wat for he call that Hawaii?
I think no savvy nothing--all-e-same Wise-a-mana.' It was the first time the name of the late captain had been mentioned, and Herrick grasped the occasion.

The reader shall be spared Uncle Ned's unwieldy dialect, and learn in less embarrassing English, the sum of what he now communicated.


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