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We were all somewhat staggered by this outburst; and the speaker himself, after that last hoarse apostrophe, appeared to sink gloomily into his own thoughts. But Rorie, who was greedy of superstitious lore, recalled him to the subject by a question. 'You will not ever have seen a teevil of the sea? he asked. 'No clearly, replied the other.
We were all somewhat staggered by this outburst; and the speaker himself, after that last hoarse apostrophe, appeared to sink gloomily into his own thoughts. But Rorie, who was greedy of superstitious lore, recalled him to the subject by a question. "You will not ever have seen a teevil of the sea?" he asked. "No' clearly," replied the other.
"Dat poor teevil," he would say, "is wort twenty pounds, well, I am good for tree hundred, in gold and silver, and provinch notes, and de mortgage on Burkit Crowse's farm for twenty-five pounds ten shillings and eleven pence halfpenny fifteen times as much as he is, pesides ten pounds interest." Tree hundred pounds! Vell, it's a great shum; but vat shall I do mid it?
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