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Why, Dave, I wrote we want thirty or forty!" "Yes you wrut," Dave answered. "But I've druv all around these parts and there ain't but three that I can find. And I ain't so sure of that third one. She looks like she might " George cut in. "But you only had a buggy, Dave! Gee! I'm going to have a Ford!" "That so, George?" "You bet it's so! And we'll go on a cow hunt all over the State!"
The bill hod been sent tull them. I wrut them from Java explainun'. At Marseilles the owners wrut me: 'Tull extra work un engine-room, sux pounds. The engineer has O.K.'d ut, an' you have no O.K.'d ut. Are you dootun' the engineer's honesty? I wrut an' told them I was no dootun' his honesty; thot the bill was for extra weight o' fire-bars; an' thot ut was O.K. Dud they pay ut? They no dud.
You should a- made an average daily run o' two hundred and suxteen. "An' me on a wunter passage, blowin' a luvin' gale half the time, wuth hurricane force in atweenwhiles, an' hove to sux days, wuth engines stopped an' bunker coal runnun' short, an' me wuth a mate thot stupid he could no pass a shup's light ot night wi'out callun' me tull the brudge. I wrut an' told 'em so.
'We regret tull note, they wrut me I got the letter tull Oregon 'We regret tull note the loss o' two Chinese members o' yer crew ot Newcastle, an' we recommend greater carefulness un the future. Greater carefulness! And I could no a-been more careful. The Chinks hod forty-five pounds each comun' tull them in wages, an' I was no a- thunkun' they 'ud run.
"Of course it's none of my business," he said, "it's for you and your grandfather to decide and I don't propose to interfere in what ain't any of my affair " "Yes, yes, Dave, sure! That's all right! But go on! What, just for a starter?" "Cows," came the tranquil answer. "I've been hunting around since you wrut me last month. And I know of three good milkers " "Three?
The boss humself hod signed ut, an' ot the bottom he wrut un hus own bond: 'The Arrata beat you by four an' a half days. Am dusappointed. Dusappointed! When I had cabled them from Newcastle. When she drydocked ot Portland, there was whuskers on her a foot long, barnacles the size o' me fust, oysters like young sauce plates. Ut took them two days afterward tull clean the dock o' shells an' muck.
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