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Updated: September 21, 2025
Accordingly, he was taking a run down the coast, but had come first to see the American Vice Consul at Bermuda to whom he was related by marriage. "I heard a good deal about that sponge-farming business," said Colin, when the other boy told him this. "Dr. Crafts told me how it was worked." "All the more reason for you to join us," his new friend responded. "I hope you're coming."
"It looks entirely different to me," the boy's host replied, as he went down the wharf steps. "I'm sorry Mr. Collier was called away this afternoon, but I may as well give a preliminary look over this sponge-farming business and you boys might as well come along. There's a man here who wants me to buy his sponge farm. Since Mr. Collier is here I'm not going to decide anything without his advice.
Colin followed Paul and his father into the boat, where was waiting a negro as black as the proverbial black hat, a local fisherman who had taken up sponge growing, and who, while shrewd enough for a business deal, knew little about sponges. "You were saying that the Bureau of Fisheries is going to take up sponge-farming?" the prospective buyer asked.
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