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"Now," he said, when he had it clean and neat in his fingers, "we must hang this up and dry it in the northeast wind; the wind is just right nor'-nor'east and there is no mascot like it, specially when " Old Tom hesitated, with a slyly innocent smile in his eyes. "What is it, Tom?" I asked. "Have I your permission to speak, sah?" he said. "Of course, you have, Tom."
And when a sailor runs into my place askin' to hide from anyone, police or not, I'm on his side every time." "He's no sailor," said Quincy. "He's Bill Rogers, an outlaw I came East for." "How about it?" asked the proprietor, turning to Rogers. "You a sailor?" "Have been. Can be again," answered Rogers calmly. "Box the compass." "North, nor'-an'-by-east, nor'-nor'east, nor'east-an'-by "
The physician was still busy over the slowly reviving patient, when the watchful orderly hurried in to where the captain was watching and waiting. "I thought I better go out and take a look, sir. While I was out at the observation there came some signal flares out of the nor'-nor'east. I wasn't certain, sir, so I waited. Along came another flash, adding our most private code signal.
The Singers came from Cincinnati to cashier in the Farmers' State Bank: Mrs. Singer was city bred and city heeled and when she met Mrs. Wert Payley she didn't even blink. She put out her hand a little nor'-nor'east of her chatelaine watch, when Mrs. Payley put out her hand some four inches southwest by south, and waited calmly for Mrs. Payley to correct herself.
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