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When hold open, he try get out, but can't; box fall on um foot, and Snowball holler wid pain; steward tink um de Debbel and knock down tings. Snowball done no harm; um bery bad wid um leg!" "Sure, an' it's an impedent schoundrel he is, the spalpeen!" said the mate. "Of all the cheeky stowaways I ever came across, he bates the lot entirely. Shall I rouse him up with a rope's end, cap'en?"
He got up and stood looking in the fire, and his shoulders shook with greif. "So I have lost you," he said in a smothered voice. And then "Who is the sneaking schoundrel?" I forgave him this, because of his being upset, and in a rapt attatude I told him the whole story. He listened, as one in a daze.
He took it and spelled it out with a pretence of great caution; but I saw well enough that the old schoundrel suspected that if I had lost a dog at all it was not this particular dog. "Ah," he said, as he put it in his pocket, "if I part with him to you I must be cleared of all risks. I can't afford to get into trouble about no mistakes.
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