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Updated: May 11, 2025
"No sell brandy?" they ask. "No." "No stealy men?" "No." "No do what then?" The chief receives most courteously, cutting down a banana-tree for them, when they express a wish for bananas. He would receive no money for his presents to them.
Of course she couldn't do that. What had she been thinking of, such a stealy, common thing, and she Mother's daughter! But, oh! It was awful, having to be up to Mother! She sniffed forlornly and drew her mitten across her nose. She had wanted it so! And she was just dying, she was so hungry. And Mother wouldn't even let her ask people for things to eat. Suppose Aunt Hetty didn't think to ask her!
Old Ding-dong kept one eye on his topsails, and one on his foe, sliding towards him across the water. "Like the Shadow o Death a'most, ain't she?" said the old man in hushed voice "so still-like and stealy." He dropped a kind eye on the boy's face. "Makes ye think first time, don't it? I mind Quiberon. Guts feel fainty like." He renewed his watch. The twinkle had left his eyes.
Most of the natives seemed puzzled to comprehend why we had visited the island at all. 'No sell brandy? 'No. 'No stealy men? 'No. 'No do what then? Their knowledge of English was too limited to enable us to make them understand that we were only making a voyage of circumnavigation in a yacht. It was now time to bid farewell to our amiable hosts and their beautiful island.
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