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"Say, boy," the old man went on, some minutes later, "guess you ain't yarned a heap 'bout your shootin' racket?" Seth was suddenly brought back to his surroundings. His eyes thoughtfully settled on the distant line of woodland that marked the river and the Reservation. He answered readily enough. "That shootin' don't affect nothin' nothin' but me," he said with meaning. "I thought Little "
It was his malicious whim that we should talk English; a fortunate whim, as it turned out, because I knew no fo'c'sle German, but had a smattering of fo'c'sle English, gathered from Cutcliffe Hyne and Kipling. With these I extemporized a disreputable hybrid, mostly consisting of oaths and blasphemies, and so yarned of imaginary voyages.
Nobody ever saw us on bad ones since we were boys, and we had broken them in to stand and be caught day or night, and to let us jump on and off at a moment's notice. All that day, being awful hot and close, we stayed in the house and yarned away with mother and Aileen till they thought poor souls that we had turned over a new leaf and were going to stay at home and be good boys for the future.
Said calmly he had purposely shipped on the same boat, knew all about me, but preferred to be known himself as "the Egyptian." He was a storehouse of tales of political intrigue, and yarned till near midnight on the deck as we slid through the phosphorescent sea. Of Ghika and his doings he was well informed.
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