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The shipwrecked trio shook themselves like dogs out of the water. They were stiff in the legs. The two rowers smiled, and when I handed each of them a cigar, they grinned, but one said: "After we've e't. Our holds are empty. We've come thirty-six hundred miles in that dinghy." "I'm captain N.P. Benson of the schooner El Dorado." vouchsafed the third. "Where's the American Counsul?"
I run away, while I was in Venice, and went ashore if you can call it ashore; it's all water, and you got to go round in boats: gondolas they call 'em there and went to see the American counsul, and told him I was an American boy, and tried to get him to get me off. But he couldn't do anything. If you ship under the Swedish flag you're a Swede, and the whole United States couldn't get you off.
There was a piece in a Portland paper about a Counsul somewhere being fired because he set in his shirt-sleeves durin office hours. I says to Col. Wheeler if Uncle Sam could keep em all in their shirtsleeves, hustlin for dear life, it wood be all the better for him and us! Letter from Miss Nancy Carey to the Hon. Lemuel Hamilton. BEULAH, June 27th.
If I'd 'a' shipped under the American flag I'd 'a' been an American, I don't care if I was born in Hottentot. That's what the counsul said. I never want to see that town ag'in. I used to hear songs about Venice 'Beautiful Venice, Bride of the Sea; but I think it's a kind of a hole of a place.
Writing on his birthday, he inserted the prayer he had offered up to his patron-saint for the accomplishment of his desires, its burden indicating how near he believed himself to the longed-for goal: "O great Saint Honore, thou to whom is dedicated a street in Paris at once so beautiful and so ugly, ordain that the ship may not blow up; ordain that I may be no more a bachelor, by decree of the Mayor or the Counsul of France; for thou knowest that I have been spiritually married for nigh on eleven years.
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