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"H'air!" cried the poor devil "h'air; I'm fainting!" Just then there came another groan from the man in the opposite bunk. "Well, I'm blessed!" said the giant, as he held the gasping tailor by the collar and glared round him. "Here's a pretty go! All the blessed chickens ha' got the croup!" The groaning of the man in the bunk redoubled.
"Yes," he was saying, "my bankers'll be please very please, they will. And good cause why. That's a hundud thousand quid, Mr. Silver, in my pocket all a-jinglin' and a-tinglin'. 'Ark to em! like 'erald angels on the go." He paused, touched the other's arm, and panted huskily: "Funny thing! A minute since it was in the h'air ewaporated, as the sayin' is. Now it's here froze tight."
"I beg your pardon, gen'l'men," cries the miserable wretch, "but I want h'air." "Go to the barber's and buy a wig, then!" says the "Crow", elated at the success of his last sally. "Oh, sir, my back!" "Get up!" groaned someone in the darkness. "Oh, Lord, I'm smothering! Here, sentry!" "Vater!" cried the little cockney. "Give us a drop o' vater, for mercy's sake.
"I don't never let my ladies lie in their berths a moment longer than there is need of. I h'always gets them on deck as soon as possible to get the h'air. It's the best medicine you can 'ave, ma'am, the fresh h'air; h'indeed it h'is." Stewardesses are all-powerful on board ship, and Mrs. Barrett was so persuasive as well as positive that it was not possible to resist her.
"She couldn't answer; she was too ill," explained Katy. "Well, my pet, it was pretty hard for you. I hope we sha'n't have any more such days. The sea is a great deal smoother now." "Mabel looks quite pale; she was sick, too," said Amy, regarding the doll in her arms with an anxious air. "I hope the fresh h'air will do her good."
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