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"Nay, lads, don't spyle a nice bit o' sport by quarrelling," said Dave, sending the boat rapidly homeward. "I wean't laugh at you no more, Mester Dick. I like you for it, lad. It do seem cruel; and sometimes when I weer younger, and a bud looked up at me with its pretty eyes, as much as to say, `don't kill me! I would let it go." "Ah!" ejaculated Dick with a sigh of relief.
"'Look here, boy, he said, 'when you've got a skunk in the house, it's a good time to be careful. You might spyle the skunk with that club, but the skunk would be right certain to spyle the house. While he's our guest, I reckon we'll have to be polite, whether we want to or not." "Looks to me as if that skunk had come to stay until he's put out," said Samson. "That may be," Abe answered.
"Now then," he said, after carefully stuffing the damaged hole with oakum, "this ought to keep the inside dry, on'y the worst on it is that the pitch won't stick well to where the wood's wet." "But you're not going to pour all that in?" "I just am," said Tom, with a chuckle. "I arn't going to spyle a ship for the sake of a ha'porth o' tar.
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