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"He knows twice as much as you do," retorted Isabel, as the skipper took his place at the helm, thus putting an end to the conversation. "Now shove her off, Stumpy," said Leopold. "Stumpy!" ejaculated Charley, with a laugh. "That's a romantic name." "His name is Stumpfield Wormbury," Leopold explained. "He is a first-rate fellow."
Joel's father, uncles, and brother had all received Scripture names; and perhaps it would have been better if Joel himself had been equally scriptural in choosing names for his offspring, for the master of the bark was Captain Stumpfield, and the boy, Stumpfield Wormbury, was doomed to be called Stumpy from the day he first went to school till he lost it in the dignity of manhood, though, even then, the unfortunate cognomen was applied to him by his old cronies.
"You shall not be turned out, mother," cried Stumpy, blubbered himself, when he saw the tears in his mother's eyes; "neither now nor on the first of August." "Why Stumpfield, what do you mean?" "Perhaps the boy means to pay the note of seven hundred dollars," sneered Squire Moses. "But I don't want any nonsense about this business."
He threw up his hat to the ceiling, and demonstrated in the most extravagant manner, to the great amusement of Mr. Hamilton and Leopold. Mrs. Wormbury cried with joy, and was not less happy than her son. "Come, Stumpfield, don't go crazy," said she.
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