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Some time after just as if the belaying-pins had nothing to do with it it was indirectly rumoured that the checker-boards might be brought out again, which as a philosophical shipmate observed showed that Captain Claret was a man of a ready understanding, and could understand a hint as well as any other man, even when conveyed by several pounds of iron.
Besides, I think the winter drives us in, and drives us together. We have never had such a time at our house with checker-boards and dominoes, and blind-man's-buff, and the piano, as this winter. Father and mother said it seemed to them like getting married over again.
Had this gentleman had his way, our checker-boards would very soon have been pitched out of the ports. But the Captain usually lenient in some things permitted them, and so Mr. Bridewell was fain to hold his peace.
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