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A Jolly Fellowship

CHAPTER VII
13/23

I took one room as quick as lightning, and I had just paid for the tickets when Mr.Chipperton and Corny walked in.
"How d' ye do ?" said he, as cheerfully as if he had never gone off with another fellow's boat.

"Buying tickets for the Oclawaha ?" I had to say yes, and then he wanted to know when we were going.

I wasn't very quick to answer; but the storekeeper said: "He's just taken the last room but one in the boat that leaves Pilatka to-morrow morning." "And when do you leave here to catch that boat ?" said Mr.Chipperton.
"This afternoon,--and stay all night at Pilatka." "Oh, father! father!" cried Corny, who had been standing with her eyes and ears wide open, all this time, "let's go! let's go!" "I believe I will," said Mr.Chipperton,--"I believe I will.

You say you have one more room.

All right.


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