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The subject was abruptly changed by Mr. White. "Well, I guess I'll be moseyin' along home, Amos. That certainly did sound like thunder, didn't it? And that tree-toad has stopped signallin', that's a sure sign. Like as not I'll get caught in the rain if I don't, what say, Lucindy?" "Do you want an umberell, Steve?" "I should say not! What do you want me to do? Scare the rain off? No, sir!
'One of 'em's a-goin' out to the "Coromandel" presently, said a sailor in answer to his question; 'you'd better wait till the agent's down, or you may be took out to the wrong ship for there's two expected, but they ain't neither of 'em in yet. Ah! as a gun was heard outside, 'that'll be the "Coromandel" signallin' now.
You see the Company have just bin introducin' a noo system of signallin', an' they ha'n't got enough of men who understand the thing to work it, d'ye see; so of course we've got to work double tides, as the Jack-tars say. If they continue to keep us at it like that I'll say it's a shame too, but we must give 'em time to git things into workin' order. Besides, they're hard-up just now.
"Well, Sally, I swear you're good at signallin'," broke out Long, as soon as the youths were fairly out of sight and sound; "you hev done it for George Tucker!" Sally gave no answer, but a brand from the back-log fell, blazed up in a shaft of rosy flame, and showed a suspicious glitter on the girl's round, wholesome cheek.
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