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"'Tis a hopeless case, if you ask me." The A.O. announced this with a fine air of resignation. His pay was 2s. 6d. a week, and he never erred on the side of zeal. "Better fit you was lookin' up such cases than idlin' here and wastin' baccy. That's if you ask me," retorted the Elder. "I've a-talked to the maid, an' I've a-talked to her gran'father, till I'm tired," said Hancock, and spat again.
"I'd be afraid to live in a country where guns popped like they do in moving picture land," Curly drawled. "Where is it anyhow? It ain't Texas, nor Oklahoma, nor Wyoming, nor Montana, nor any of the spots in between, because I've been in all of them." Maloney laughed. "Day before yesterday that's the way I'd a-talked my own self, but now I know better. What about your little stunt?
That was 'er name, an' she 'ad a shock, pore dear, an' it was all along of you at the studero a-talkin' about 'er father. You must a-talked about 'er father: so no lies. She 'ad fits arter that, in course she 'ad. Why, you'll make me die a-larfin' with your poll-parritin' ways, sayin' "a shock, a shock, a shock," arter me. In course she 'ad a shock; she 'ad it when she was a little gal o' six.
"I mean Lieutenant Matson." "Not as I know of." "Did you see him after we left Mariana?" "Yes." "When?" "Only six days before we were captured by Decatur. We touched at the Canary Islands, and the Xenophon was there. He came aboard our vessel." "Did he recognize you?" "No," Sukey answered. "Had he known me he wouldn't a-talked with a common sailor." "Was he married then?"
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