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I sold 'em, Teddy! me what goes about now with you, dressed up in old sacks and looking for lost 'ens. People used to come into my shop, great beautiful ladies like you'd 'ardly dream of now, dressed up to the nines, and say, 'Well, Mr. Smallways, what you got 'smorning? and I'd say, 'Well, I got some very nice C'nadian apples, 'or p'raps I got custed marrers. See? And they'd buy 'em.
"Sarvant, sir," said Tom, pulling his forelock, man-o'-war fashion, to the young officer. "Been showing Eben Megg how the cave was busted up, sir, in the storm. I beg pardon, sir; I've been scouring and swabbing out the boat 'smorning in case you and the luff-tenant wanted to go for a sail." "To be sure," cried Aleck, eagerly.
"That's right; and when them two vessels come into sight 'smorning you got the glass out to see what they were?" "Yes; directly." "And then you went down to your boat-hole and ran over here as fast as you could?" "Yes; but it wasn't fast, for the wind kept dropping. But how did you know this?" "Never you mind how I knowed. You knowed that me and four mates came over here last night."
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