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A quarter of an hour later he emerged into that famous thoroughfare again, smiling incoherently, and, retracing his steps to the waterside, jumped into a boat, and was pulled off to his ship. "Comes off to-night, Joe," said he, as he descended to the cabin, "an' it's arf a quid to you if the old gal wins." "What's the bet?" inquired the mate, looking up from his task of shredding tobacco.
"Proceed," said I. "I reside in the shameful old graveyard a block or two above you here, in this street there, now, I just expected that cartilage would let go! third rib from the bottom, friend, hitch the end of it to my spine with a string, if you have got such a thing about you, though a bit of silver wire is a deal pleasanter, and more durable and becoming, if one keeps it polished to think of shredding out and going to pieces in this way, just on account of the indifference and neglect of one's posterity!" and the poor ghost grated his teeth in a way that gave me a wrench and a shiver for the effect is mightily increased by the absence of muffling flesh and cuticle.
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