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Three Men on the Bummel

CHAPTER I
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He said he knew a yacht, just the very thing--one that we could manage by ourselves; no skulking lot of lubbers loafing about, adding to the expense and taking away from the romance.

Give him a handy boy, he would sail it himself.

We knew that yacht, and we told him so; we had been on it with Harris before.

It smells of bilge-water and greens to the exclusion of all other scents; no ordinary sea air can hope to head against it.

So far as sense of smell is concerned, one might be spending a week in Limehouse Hole.


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