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Updated: May 16, 2025

“To be sure it did, squire; and haven’t I logged it as a shift of wind?” “I don’t see where, Benjamin ” “Don’t see!” interrupted the steward, a little crustily; “ain’t there a mark agin’ east-and-by-nothe-half-nothe, with summat like a rising sun at the end of it, to show ‘twas in the morning watch?” “Yes, yes, that is very legible; but where is the change noted?”

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers