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He picked up the book, griming the dainty pages as he turned them with his rough fingers, glancing at the headings. "Um-huh," he grunted, "'Sonnets from the Portegees, eh? I never thought them Dagos could write what I've seen of 'em was mostly drivin' fish-wagons or swampin' around some slaughterhouse.
Here broke in the eldest boy, named John, aged ten, a native American, and a sailor already, whom I had twice fished up from a capsized punt. "Mother ain't a Bavarian," quoth the young salt. "Father's a Bavarian; mother's a Portegee. Portegees wear them hoods." "I am a Portuguese, sir, from Fayal," said the woman, prolonging with sweet intonation the soft name of her birthplace.
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