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Captain Magor now ordered the mainsail to be hauled out, and the main-topsail and maintop-gallant-sail to be set. By the time this was done, not even the outlines of the stranger could be perceived astern. "Take in studdin'-sails," cried the captain. These by the united efforts of the crew, wildly fluttering, were hauled down without a spar being lost. The fore-royal was then furled.
"You allude to the accident of my maintop-gallant-sail getting loose when you first made me?" "I mean no other. We had caught a glimpse of your spars with the glass; but had lost you altogether, when the flying duck met the eye of a look-out. To say the least, it, was remarkable, and it might have proved an awkward circumstance." "Ah! I often do things in that way, in order to be odd.
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