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Why, d'you mean to tell me you don't know wot bleedin' a buoy is?" "I'm afraid my nautical knowledge is very limited," I apologised. "It's surprisin' wot some shoregoin' blokes don't know abart th' Navy, sir," said the burly one with some contempt, chuckling away to himself.
The captain looked up at the thick stem with a doubtful expression, and then turned to Hendrick with a nautical shake of the head. "I never saw a stick," he said, "that would stand the like o' that without fore an' back stays, but it may be that shoregoin' sticks are "
I likes a good book myself, an', though I don't care about prayin' or psalm-singin', seein' I don't understand 'em, I say `good luck' to the mission smacks, if it was for nothin' else than the books, an' doctor stuff, an' mitts what the shoregoin' ladies bless their hearts! is so fond o' sendin' to us." "Ay, an the cheap baccy, too, that they say they're a-goin' to send to us," added Freeman.
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