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He drew a deep, slow breath and went on: "They threw off all the good in the ship with sails but they carefully kept all that was bad. The old mutiny laws they kept all that. Undermanning of crews they kept all that. The waterfront sharks they kept all that. But there was one thing they couldn't keep the old sailor's habit of standing all this!
The Doctor assured him that he was; but the man didn't go away. He hung around and argued. He told us he had known of many ships being sunk through "undermanning." He got out what he called his stiffikit a paper which said what a good sailor he was and implored us, if we valued our lives, to take him.
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