[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER IX 26/52
You mustn't talk to him about Johnstown, because-- "And, oh, you must know Tom Platt and Long Jack and Manuel.
Manuel saved my life.
I'm sorry he's a Portuguee.
He can't talk much, but he's an everlasting musician.
He found me struck adrift and drifting, and hauled me in." "I wonder your nervous system isn't completely wrecked," said Mrs. Cheyne. "What for, Mama? I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man." That was too much for Mrs.Cheyne, who began to think of her visions of a corpse rocking on the salty seas.
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