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"Here I come onto him in the lee of White's wharf putting a compass into the old man's sail-dory, and I says to him, 'What you up to, Andrew? And he says with a kind of laugh, 'Oh, taking a little sail for other parts, says he like that. Now, just imagine, Josh, with this here weather coming on all hell bu'sting loose to the north'rd!"
"Rather puffy, and twice I thought it would haul right about, but here we have it still from the north'rd and east'rd," replied the captain. "Here it is again," added the mate, as the wind hauled once more.
But I paid no heed; only made with a struggle to go on. "This way!" I panted. "To the north'rd! She's heading to the north'rd. I saw her dress just there, just now " A little was enough to turn him. As I plunged on, making inland, I heard him trailing me with his ponderous, grunting flesh. His ardor was greater than mine; as we ran I heard his thick voice coming nearer and nearer to my ear.
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