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"But but it's May now, and I can't stay here doin' nothing just because you want to fish. I can't, I tell you!" "Right an' jest; jest an' right. No one asks you to do nothin'. There's a heap as you can do, for Otto he went overboard on Le Have. I mistrust he lost his grip in a gale we f'und there. Anyways, he never come back to deny it.
"All right," said Bumpus, with a broad grin "Hallo! why, here's a spear, that must ha' been dropped by one o' them savages. That's a piece o' good luck, anyhow, as the man said when he f'und the fi' pun' note. Now, then, keep an eye on them gals, lad, and I'll be back as soon as ever I can; though I does feel rather stiffish. My old timbers ain't used to such deep divin', d'ye see."
Why not?" demanded Ellinwood, turning upon the other belligerently. "Wal," replied the other, "they do say there's men in this village, and farther south, too, that wouldn't sail with Code, not fer a thousand dollars and all f'und." "Them that says it are fools," declared Ellinwood. "An' liars!" cut in Bijonah Tanner hotly. "Why won't they sail with the lad?
"Yes," said a youth, "I f'und one of 'em an' he told me the Hawk's luck was Jonahed this trip." "Where's the packet lyin'?" "About twelve mile sou'east near the edge of the Bank." Nat went to the wheel himself. "Up jib an' fores'l," he sung out, "and sway 'em flat! Mains'l and tops'ls after that! Raymond, overhaul the balloon, stays'l, and trys'l!
I don't doubt he'd try," said Troop; "but a whole season's catch is eight men's bread; an' you'll be better in your health when you see him in the fall. Go forward an' help Dan. It's ten an' a ha'af a month, e I said, an' o' course, all f'und, same e the rest o' us." "Do you mean I'm to clean pots and pans and things?" said Harvey. "An' other things. You've no call to shout, young feller."
"Still, things should ha' been kep' sep'rate," said Disko, and the light of new argument lit in Salters's eye as he crumbled cut plug into his pipe. "There's a power av vartue in keepin' things sep'rate," said Long Jack, intent on stilling the storm. "That's fwhat Steyning of Steyning and Hare's f'und when he sent Counahan fer skipper on the Marilla D. Kuhn, instid o' Cap.
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