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'Howd your tongue! an doan't keep bully-raggin like 'at! What's t' matter wi yo? For answer, she rolled over on the rock and lay on her face, howling with pain. David sprang up and bent over her. 'What iver's t' matter wi yo, Louie? But she kept him off like a wild cat, and he could make nothing of her till her passion had spent itself and she was quiet again, from sheer exhaustion.
"The matter is just this here, young 'un," replied Ned, entering the berth and seating himself on a chest, "The hands for'ard has made up their minds not to have no more such haccidents as them two that occurred last night; nor they ain't a-goin' to have no more floggin' nor bully-raggin', so they've just rose up and are takin' possession of the ship Aha!
'Bully-raggin' he took no more account of than of a shower of rain; blows she instinctively felt it would have been dangerous to attempt; and as to deprivation of food, the lad seemed to thrive on hunger, and never whistled so loudly as when, according to Hannah's calculations, he must have been as 'keen-bitten as a hawk. For the first time in her life Hannah was to some extent tamed.
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