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"I know my buzz'ness," was the way he often put it, and beyond his business was all that he did not know, all that he had seen with the mortal eyes of him and yet that he never dreamed existed.
"After the pilot was gone I says tull the mate: 'Uf you dunna know onythun', old mon, for Heaven's sake keep your mouth shut. "'But ye dud smash thot lighter, dudn't ye? says he. "'Uf we dud, says I, 'ut's no your buzz'ness tull be tellun' the pilot though, mind ye, I'm no admuttun' there was ony lighter.
They no blamed the mate for ut, but me, an' me ashore ot the time on shup's buzz'ness. I could no be in the two places ot the one time. An' the letters from the owners an' the agents uz still comun' tull me. "Thot mate-fellow was no a proper sailor, an' no a mon tull work for owners. Dudna he want tull break me wuth the Board of Trade for bein' below my marks? He said as much tull the bos'n.
"'No, ut dud not, says he, 'but ut was a clear night wuth the moon a-showun'. "'Ye seem tull know your buzz'ness, says I. 'But let me tell ye thot I know my buzz'ness uz well, an' thot I'm no a-lookun' for lighters wuthout lights. Uf ye thunk ye hov a case, go ahead. The steward will show ye out. Guid day. "An' thot was the end o' ut. But ut wull show ye what a puir fellow thot mate was.
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