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He would rather haul a two-dollar pelt over "t' ballicaters" than make two hundred in any other way. "So I reckoned," said Ned cannily, "one chance to make t' old man friendly was to put him in t' way o' doing again what he was really scarcely able to do any longer; and that was, to have as many notches on his gaff-stick for dead seals as any other man.
Having just been stuffed with a tale of their lawless habits, the sight of these persons threw me, of course, on the alert. I grasped the butt of my gaff-stick, an excellent weapon, about the length and weight of a policeman's staff, and braced up my nerves for the melée. But when we stood face to face, all idea that they would venture to begin the fray vanished.
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