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The Ebb-Tide

CHAPTER 6
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'Tain't worth what the cargo would have been of course, at least not money down.

But I'll tell you what it appears to figure up to.

Appears to me as if it amounted to about the bottom dollar of the man in 'Frisco.' ''Old on,' said Huish.

'Give a fellow time; 'ow's this, umpire ?' 'Well, my sons,' pursued the captain, who seemed to have recovered his assurance, 'Wiseman and Wishart were to be paid for casting away this old schooner and its cargo.

We're going to cast away the schooner right enough; and I'll make it my private business to see that we get paid.
What were W.and W.to get?
That's more'n I can tell.


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