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The Stowaway Girl

CHAPTER III
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Stooard!" "Yes, sir," said the messroom attendant.
"Portion out all the soda water in the lockers, an' whack it on the table every meal till it gives out.

See that nobody puts away more'n 'is proper allowance, too.

I'm not goin' to cry hush-baby w'en the _Andromeda_ gets this sort of kid's dodge worked off on 'er." "If you're alloodin' to me," put in the incensed "chief," whose temper rose on this direct provocation, "I want to tell you now----" "Does the cap fit ?" sneered Coke.
"No, it doesn't.

I never 'eard of that kind of potash in me life.
D'ye take me for a--chemist's shop ?" "Never 'eard of it!" cried the incensed skipper, who had obviously made up his mind as to the person responsible for the outrage.

"There's 'arf a dozen cases of it in the after hold--or there was, w'en we put the hatches on." "Even if some of the cases were broken, sir, the contents could not reach the tanks," said Hozier, who fancied that Coke's attack on the bibulous Watts was wholly unwarranted.


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