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But I wouldn't 'a' knowed that voice for Skipper Jim's 'twas so hollow and breathless. 'She's draggin', says he. 'Let her drag. They's a better anchorage in there a bit. She'll take the bottom agin afore she strikes them craft. "We was draggin' fast bearin' straight down on the craft inside. They was a trader an' two Labrador fishin'-craft.
"Hoss-radish! yah, yah, yah! Why, Massa, whar under the sun does you suppose now I could git hoss-radish, on board ob dis 'Black Hawk? De sea broke into my garden de oder night, and kill ebery created ting in it. Lord a massy, Massa, you know dis is notin' but a fishin'-craft, salt pork and taters one day, and salt beef and taters next day, den twice laid for third day, and den begin agin.
"They wasn't a man o' the crew liked t' hear the skipper say that; for, look you! the skipper didn't know nothin' about feelin's, an' the cook had more feelin's 'n a fool can make handy use of aboard a Labrador fishin'-craft. No, zur; the skipper didn't know nothin' about feelin's. I'm not wantin' t' say it about that there man, nor about no other man; for they isn't nothin' harder t' be spoke.
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