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They are daring watermen, the coast negroes. They took Peter on deep-sea fishing-trips, and at night he curled up on a furled sail and went to sleep to the sound of Atlantic waves, and of negro men singing as only negro men can sing.
In one thing he was correct it was the middle of the night; a later hour than the boy had ever been absent from home, even upon the most prolonged of fishing-trips. Yet the softness beneath his head was not that of a pillow in its case, but the lap of a white-frocked girl, who was holding him tenderly and sobbing as if her heart would break. "W-w-wh-where 'm I a-at? Who's a-c-c-cr-cry in'?"
It would be just like Mr. Saunders to be a good dancer! "He harps well, too," she said meditatively. "What's that?" enquired Uncle Charlie. "Oh, I mean that thing he plays." "The ukelele. Yes, Saunders is a wizard with it. But in spite of that he's a good fellow." He continued: "He sometimes goes on fishing-trips with me." Fishing-trips!
"But," expostulated the captain, "girls don't go on fishing-trips." "Suppose the cook should fall sick or be hurt, then I would come in handy, wouldn't I? But all this is not the real point. Things are different with us than they have ever been before; we have no home, and mother and the children have to board with Ma Sprague. If I stayed here I should be a burden, and I couldn't stand that."
At last, one day the mother was robbed of everything. During one of his father's fishing-trips Jacques carried off all she had, furniture, pots and pans, sheets, linen, everything; he sold it to go to Nantes and carry on his capers there. The poor mother wept day and night. This time it couldn't be hidden from the father, and she feared him not for herself, you may be sure of that.
You see it's a little banged up because I've carried it around with me a good deal fishing-trips and so on; but it's acquired tone since I began handling it the green in that leather has darkened. 'Society and Solitude. There's the irony of fate for you. Where had I got to? When I went in to say good-bye we had quite a talk.
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