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Updated: July 20, 2025
When he had been left alone, Captain Eli sat down near the kitchen stove, close to the very kettle which he had filled with water to heat for the benefit of the man he had helped bring in from the sea, and, with his elbows on his knees and his fingers in his hair, he darkly pondered. "If I'd only slept with my hard-o'-hearin' ear up," he said to himself, "I'd never have heard it."
Nevertheless, he feels safer when it is his "hard-o'-hearin' ear" that is not upon the pillow. I was still a young man when I came into the possession of an excellent estate. This consisted of a large country house, surrounded by lawns, groves, and gardens, and situated not far from the flourishing little town of Boynton.
"After all," said Captain Eli, meditatively, "this whole business come out of my sleepin' with my best ear up. Fer if I'd slept with my hard-o'-hearin' ear up " Mrs. Trimmer put one finger on his lips. "All right," said Captain Eli, "I won't say no more. But it would have been different." Even now, several years after that Christmas, when there is no Mrs.
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