[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER I 14/37
Then I see you come all down.
Eh, wha-at? I think you are cut into baits by the screw, but you dreeft--dreeft to me, and I make a big fish of you. So you shall not die this time." "Where am I ?" said Harvey, who could not see that life was particularly safe where he lay. "You are with me in the dory--Manuel my name, and I come from schooner 'We're Here' of Gloucester.
I live to Gloucester.
By-and-by we get supper.
Eh, wha-at ?" He seemed to have two pairs of hands and a head of cast-iron, for, not content with blowing through a big conch-shell, he must needs stand up to it, swaying with the sway of the flat-bottomed dory, and send a grinding, thuttering shriek through the fog.
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