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Afloat at Last

CHAPTER EIGHT
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"They've heard tell of the way I treat all such swindling rascals, and know that when I say a thing I mean a thing!" His satisfaction, however, was short-lived; for, just then, several confused cries and a general commotion was heard forward.
"Hullo!" cried the captain, staggering up to the poop rail and looking towards the bows, "what's the row there ?" "Bedad, sorr," shouted back the boatswain, yelling out the words as loudly as he could, like Captain Gillespie, and putting his hands to his mouth to prevent the wind carrying them away seaward, "there's a did man in the forepake!".


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