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You must know as how this old lady were going over the Atlantic for the fust time, being on a voyage from Falmouth to Saint Kitts, in the West h'Indies; and she were mighty curious, when she had rekivered from sea-sickness, about all the strange sights o' the h'ocean, pestering the cap'en to death with questions.
Such frivolous conduct was beneath his dignity. "I 'ave h'important things to disclose," he said, mysteriously. "Indeed." "Yes, sar. Last night I dreamed." "You've got nothing on me; so did I." "I am walking on the h'edge of the h'ocean when I h'encountered a whale a 'uge whale." "Swam ashore to rest, I suppose?" "No, sar; he was dead. It was very vivid."
"Oh, sar, the 'fish' number did not win, to be sure, but 'water' did." "But you didn't dream about water, it was about fish, 'vivid' fish." "I did not chance to think of the water," acknowledged Allan, "but there was the whale lying upon the h'edge of the h'ocean, h'all the time."
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