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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER X
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You take warnin' by that, young feller.

Riches endureth but for a season, ef you scatter them araound on lugsuries--" "But to lose everything--everything," said Penn.

"What can you do then?
Once I"-- the watery blue eyes stared up and down, as looking for something to steady them--"once I read--in a book, I think--of a boat where every one was run down--except some one--and he said to me--" "Shucks!" said Salters, cutting in.

"You read a little less an' take more int'rust in your vittles, and you'll come nearer earnin' your keep, Penn." Harvey, jammed among the fishermen, felt a creepy, crawly, tingling thrill that began in the back of his neck and ended at his boots.

He was cold, too, though it was a stifling day.
"'That the actress from Philadelphia ?" said Disko Troop, scowling at the platform.


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