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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER VI
14/17

An' ef she's quit driftin', what in thunder are you doin' with a new jib-boom ?" That shot went home.
"Hey, you Portugoosy organ-grinder, take your monkey back to Gloucester.

Go back to school, Dan Troop," was the answer.
"O-ver-alls! O-ver-alls!" yelled Dan, who knew that one of the _Carrie's_ crew had worked in an overall factory the winter before.
"Shrimp! Gloucester shrimp! Git aout, you Novy!" To call a Gloucester man a Nova Scotian is not well received.

Dan answered in kind.
"Novy yourself, ye Scrabble-towners! ye Chatham wreckers! Git aout with your brick in your stockin'!" And the forces separated, but Chatham had the worst of it.
"I knew haow 'twould be," said Disko.

"She's drawed the wind raound already.

Some one oughter put a deesist on thet packet.


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