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After he had done he pushed himself up by the palms of his hands, rearranged his row of tin letter-files, shifted his electric bulkhead light, picked up a fat folk-lore volume and waited, with eyes twinkling down on us, for somebody to say something. "And how long ago was that, Dallie?" asked somebody, at last. "Five years." "And never a word from the admiral?" "Never a word." "H-m-ph!
So now our good old skipper begins to tumble his hair and pull his moustache and look again at Mr. Renner's note. At last he tells the messenger to say to Mr. Renner that he will look into it and let him know. "Another hour of studying, and the captain calls in his new yeoman that " "Was that you, Dallie?" "Never mind and cut out the personal questions, Reggie son.
And now when he began to relate the history of the famous length of hose-pipe, we knew that he would have it right. "I was in well, call her the cruiser Savannah this time " "Were you a yeoman, Dallie?" "Yes, a yeoman, bright Reggie boy; what else d' y' think I'd be a signal-girl? A good old ship, the Savannah, and were tied up to the dock at the Navy Yard." "Boston yard, was it, Dallie?"
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