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Updated: May 9, 2025
He helped her very carefully to the cold pork and potatoes, and handed her the well-piled platter of griddle-cakes. "Here's the first buckwheats of the season," said he, "and I told Miss Fortune I warn't agoing to eat one on 'em if you didn't come down to enjoy 'em along with us. Take two take two! you want 'em to keep each other hot."
They were connected by wires with a mechanism that hummed like the purring of a well-piled motor. "Clockwork!" exclaimed the carpenter's mate, bending over the chest. "That's what she is. Ah! It reverses itself. See that spring winding tighter and tighter? Why, it's almost perpetual motion! Some inventor that fellow!" "What fellow?" growled the warrant officer. "Whoever built this."
They had asked him no questions as to his name or nation, they had simply seen in him a stranger overtaken by the storm and in need of shelter, and had entertained him accordingly. They had conducted him to the refectory, where a well-piled log fire was cheerfully blazing, and there had set before him an excellent supper, flavored with equally excellent wine.
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