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Westward Ho!

CHAPTER I
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Whose son are you, my gallant fellow ?" "Mr.Leigh's, of Burrough Court." "Bless his soul! I know him as well as I do the Eddystone, and his kitchen too.

Who sups with him to-night ?" "Sir Richard Grenville." "Dick Grenville?
I did not know he was in town.

Go home and tell your father John Oxenham will come and keep him company.

There, off with you! I'll make all straight with the good gentleman, and you shall have your venture with me; and as for the horn, let him have the horn, Yeo, and I'll give you a noble for it." "Not a penny, noble captain.

If young master will take a poor mariner's gift, there it is, for the sake of his love to the calling, and Heaven send him luck therein." And the good fellow, with the impulsive generosity of a true sailor, thrust the horn into the boy's hands, and walked away to escape thanks.
"And now," quoth Oxenham, "my merry men all, make up your minds what mannered men you be minded to be before you take your bounties.


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