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"What you talkin' about?" retorted the latter through his dazzling white teeth. "I'm not in politics." "Why didn't ye say so, then?" said Captain Pharo calmly, "and not keep me standin' here wastin' my breath on ye?" "Moderation," sweetly chimed in the voice of Captain Leezur "moderation in all things, even as low down as passnips."
"All things is good ef we use 'em in moderation; but we've got ter use moderation, in eatin' an' drinkin', an' lobster sallid yes, an' even in passnips. Nothin' 'll dew but the same old rewl, even in passnips. "I heered voices deown to the shore last night," he continued, with a sort of yearning confidence toward me, so that I bent my ear nearer, with some of his own sorrow.
Did ye ever think," he resumed, "o' what a wonderful thing ile is, an' what 'd we dew without 'er? heow the wringin' machine 'ud seound when ye was turnin' on 'er for yer wife, Monday mornin's?" "No," said I sadly. "Then ag'in, it 's ile in yer natur' keeps ye ca'm an' c'llected, an' it's ile in yer dispersition l'arns ye t' say, 'Moderation 's the rewl, even in passnips."
His health is not strong, never since that fall. There; you have all I know, Captain Leezur." Captain Leezur meditated. The sun saw itself globed in a tear that fell on Captain Leezur's felts. "Moderation in all things, ye know," he added, beaming, not to distress me; "even in passnips." I mused with him in silent sympathy.
She stopped him with a haughty look. "An' in course," said he, "I don't know, neither. But it dews make me feel dreadful t' think I've started sech a rank bean-pole farm as this, when I've all'as told ye, my little gal, 't we'd ort'er use moderation" Captain Leezur wiped his blessed shining eyes "moderation in all things, even in passnips I have said an' neow I change it to bean-poles."
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