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The master laid his parallel ruler down on the chart, with its edge passing through the dot representing the ship's position, and also through the Penmarks; then he carefully slid the ruler along the surface of the chart until that same edge passed through the centre of the compass diagram, and read off the bearing "No'th-east, half east." The skipper turned sharply round to the quartermaster.
"She's pullin' 'round into the no'th-east right now, and I tell Mandy she might's well make up her mind to my lyin' up tight an' dry for a while. Won't be no clams shipped from these flats to-morrow." "High you'll likely be," agreed the storekeeper. "How dry ye'll be, Milt, remains to be seen." "In-side, or aout?" chuckled Cap'n Joab, for Milt Baker's failing was not hidden under a bushel.
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