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A Jolly Fellowship

CHAPTER XXI
18/22

They were on the very steamer we passed in the inside passage.

If we had only known that! They telegraphed the moment they reached Fernandina, and proposed stopping at St.Augustine, but it was thought they could make better time by keeping right on to Fernandina.

The telegram reached Savannah after we had left on the tug.
Mr.Chipperton said he got his fancy clothes on board the schooner.

He bought them of a man--a passenger, I believe--who had an extra suit.
"I think," said Mr.Chipperton, "he was the only man on that mean little vessel who had two suits of clothes.

I don't know whether these were his weekday or his Sunday clothes.


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