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I again spoke to the captain, but he was too far gone to reason with: he had got drunk to die, because he was afraid to die sober no unusual case with sailors. "Don't tell me; d n me, who is a-feard to die? I arn't. I swore she should never enter a British port, and I have kept my word." He then began to use curses and execrations; and, at last, fell on the deck in a fit of drunken frenzy.
"Naw, boss, I ain't a-gwine by dar, caze dat ar Jerdan's Jerney ain got a good name ter my years. I ain't a-feard er ha'nts by daylight, but I'se monst'ous feared er badness day er nightime, en hit sutney do pear ter me like de badness er ole Marse Jonathan done got in de a'r er dat ar Jerdan's Jerney.
"Is that Solomon?" she says, pretendin' to be a-feard. "Noo, tain't," that says, an' that come fudder inter the room. "Well, is that Zebedee?" says she agin. "Noo, tain't," says the impet. An' then that laughed an' twirled that's tail till yew cou'n't hardly see it. "Take time, woman," that says; "next guess, an' you're mine." An' that stretched out that's black hands at her.
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