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"'Why, what's this? says the man. "'Guess ye'll find out, darn ye, says Tom Tooth-acre. 'So, ye wanted our ship, did ye? Wal, ye jest can't have our ship, says Tom, says he; and I tell you he jest run that 'are fellow up stairs lickety-split, for Tom was strong as a giant. "The fust thing they saw was Mr. More hed got the widder by both arms, and was tying on 'em behind her.
'What's more, says he, 'if the cap'n don't look sharp arter her the devil 'll have us all afore mornin. I tell ye, Sam, there's mischief under them petticuts. "'Why, what do ye think? says I. "'Think! I don't think, I knows! That 'are's no gal, nor widder neither, if my name's Tom Tooth-acre! Look at her walk; look at the way she turns on her heel I I've been a watchin' on her.
"'There, she's comin' agin, says I to Tom Tooth-acre. "'Yes, and brought her baggage with her, says Tom; and he p'inted down to a long, narrow pine box that was in the boat beside her. "Jest then the cap'n called on Mr. More, and he called on Tom Toothacre; and among 'em they lowered a tackle, and swung the box aboard, and put it in the state-room right alongside the cap'n's cabin.
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