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That was when an off-shore gale blew all the water out o' the breach 'twixt the p'int and the mainland. "Ye see," said Cap'n Abe, smiling again, "Narrer P'int is re'lly an island, even at low water. But then a hoss an' buggy can splatter across't the breach. But it makes Marm Coffin seasick even to ride through water in a buggy. Marked, she is, as you might say.

Lashed hard and fast to this here store, and to a stay-ashore life, when my heart an' soul was longin' to set a course for 'way across't the world? Sargasso that's it. This was my Sargasso Sea and I was smothered in it!" "I think I understand, Cap'n Abe," the girl said softly, laying her hand in his big palm.

One crowd says Mr. Haley would steal candy from a blind baby, an' t'other says his overcoat fits him so tight across't the shoulders 'cause his wings is sproutin'. Haw! haw! haw!" "And what d' ye say, Mr. Dexter?" asked Aunt 'Mira, bluntly. The expressman puckered his lips into a curious expression. "I tell ye what," he said. "Knowin' Mr.

But onc't in a while ye'll come across't one that's as sly as a weasel." "Oh, 'tain't none o' them!" said Mrs. Gammit, in a tone which conveyed a poor opinion of her host's sagacity and woodcraft. "I've suspicioned the weasels, an' the foxes, an' the woodchucks, but hain't found a sign o' any one of 'em round the place. An' as fer skunks well, I reckon, I've got a nose on my face."