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"Yes, Jack, Benting says she must have a new stem altogether. He does not think the keel is damaged, but the stem is cracked right through." "That will cost a lot, won't it?" Jack said. "Yes, it is a nasty job, Jack; because, of course, she will want a lot of fresh planks in her. In fact, she will want pretty well rebuilding forward of the mast."
Of course I told him she was only four years old, and that I had only finished paying off the money I borrowed when I had her built, last year. He said that as she was only four years old she was worth spending the money on; but if she had been an old boat, it would not have been worth while throwing money away on her. But Benting says he can make her as good as new again."
Jack found that his uncle and Tom had turned out at three o'clock in the morning, and had got the Bessy as high up as possible on the sloping shore, just beyond the houses. They were standing beside her now, while Benting, the local boat-builder, was examining her bottom. "Well, Jack, you have taken it out in sleep this morning," his uncle said. "That I have, uncle.
"Right you are, Benting," said the colonel, "imperialism is the desire for power. Imperialism means looking at the world from a great altitude. And the nation which is without it will never inherit the earth."
"It will cost about twenty pounds to make a good job of it," Benting said as he joined them. "I shouldn't like to take the job for less, not on contract. If I did day-work it might come to a little less or a little more, I cannot say." Jack looked anxiously up into his uncle's face, for he knew that twenty pounds was a serious matter. "It won't be at my expense, Jack," Ben replied to his look.
Captain Murchison that evening when he returned from town, where he had gone up to report to Lloyd's the loss of the ship, had a talk with Benting, and being assured by him that the Bessy would after the execution of the repairs be in all respects as stout a craft as before, arranged with him to do it for the sum he named, and to set to work immediately. Three days later Mr.
"Don't talk foolish. We know very well what the Japs want, imperialism or no imperialism." "Well, why are the papers always talking so much about imperialism?" "They write from their own standpoint. Imperialism simply means that we wish to rule wherever the Stars and Stripes are waving." The colonel peeped into the adjacent cover. It was Sergeant Benting who was speaking.
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