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There's ownly fower raal sailors, as ye call's 'em, now aboard, barrin' Misther Mackay and the second mate; an' them's Adams over thar aft at the wheel, these two idle jokers here beside me, the ship's bhoy, an' thin mesilf though, faix, me modesty forbids me say'n it, sure!" "And are you really the only sailors on board?"
I thanked her, and reached down another piece; which Jenny held to the fire on a fork. And then we were silent for a minute or so. "I'll tell yo what," said Nanny, "some folk's o'th luck i'th world." "What's up now, Nanny?" replied I. "They say'n that Owd Bill, at Fo' Edge, has had a dowter wed, an' a cow cauve't, an a mare foal't o' i' one day. Dun yo co' that nought?"
"What's your son John getting, Mary?" said the chairman to one old woman. "Whor?" replied she. "What's your son John getting?" The old woman put her hand up to her ear, and answered, "Aw'm rayther deaf. What say'n yo?" It turned out that her son was taken ill, and they were relieved.
"'Bring it all, I says; 'I want the hull ball of wax. "'Six doll's, he says, kind of cautious. "I pulled out my buckskin pouch. 'Bring her back and take it out of that, I says 'when I get through, I says. "He grinned and hurried back with it. Well, son, nothing had ever tasted so good to me, and I ain't say'n' that wa'n't the biggest worth of all my money't I ever got.
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