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Updated: May 31, 2025
The keenly watchful eyes of Burgin had noted the arrival of that apple-jack at the island; and they had closely followed its fortunes, from first to last. He had more than half tried, indeed, to work himself in among the crowd, as one of the "sufferers," but with no manner of success. The officers of the ship knew every face that had any right to a spoonful, and Burgin's failed to pass him.
It was a good deal worse than that; and an angry and disappointed pair were they when the cork and the truth came out. "Thar's jest a good smell!" That was old Peter's remark; and it sounded as if words failed him to add to it, but Burgin's wrath exploded in a torrent of bitter abuse of the man or men who had emptied that demijohn. He gave old Peter a capital chance to turn upon him morosely with,
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