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Is it not so?" "It is even so," said Littlefaith. "I would fain turn a penny, like other men. Men say, in our village of Lovegain, that my neighbours, Plausible, and Saveall, and Worldly-wiseman, by their dealings at the fair have made a mint of money; and so would Obstinate, too, for that matter, if he had not asked too much for his wares, and so lost his market, and returned as he went.
He no sooner heard Splinter's report, than he sprung up the ladder, brushing the tumbler of swizzle he had just brewed clean out of the fiddle into the lap of Mr Saveall, the purser, who had dined with him, and nearly extinguishing the said purser, by his arm striking the bowl of the pipe he was smoking, thereby forcing the shank half way down his throat. "My glass, Wilson," to his steward.
Dem shoot him troo de head! Oh, Lad!" Captain Deadeye had come on deck. "You John Crow, what is wrong with you?" "Why, de Purser killed, Captain, dat all." "Purser killed? Doctor, is Saveall hurt?" Treenail could stand it no longer.
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