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'It's caad whiles outside i' the wunter, admitted Si, 'yet i' the but wi' aad Maud the collie an' her litter, Dand the shepherd, an' Sall his wife about the blazing peats on the hearth ye'll be warmer an' cosier than the Queen of Scotland.
You should a- made an average daily run o' two hundred and suxteen. "An' me on a wunter passage, blowin' a luvin' gale half the time, wuth hurricane force in atweenwhiles, an' hove to sux days, wuth engines stopped an' bunker coal runnun' short, an' me wuth a mate thot stupid he could no pass a shup's light ot night wi'out callun' me tull the brudge. I wrut an' told 'em so.
An' then: 'Our nautical adviser suggests you kept too far south, an' 'We are lookun' for better results from thot propeller. Nautical adviser! shore pilot! Ut was the regular latitude for a wunter passage from Voloparaiso tull Sydney.
Again the skipper grunted. He was weary with the night of wind in the Irish Channel behind him, the unbroken hours of which he had spent on the bridge. And he was weary with all the voyage behind him two years and four months between home port and home port, eight hundred and fifty days by his log. "Proper wunter weather," he answered, after a silence. "The town is undistinct.
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