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"Halcro, my lad," said he, "I am real glad to see you. Thank the Lord ye're safe!" "I might say the same to you, captain," said I. "How were ye rescued, and where are Peter and Jerry?" "Peter and Jerry are at Oliver Gray's," he answered. "Come, let us join them. As for mysel', why, there's nothing much to tell. I was picked up by the boat ten minutes after I dropped owerboard.
Where have you been, my lad, all this while past since Davie Flett fell owerboard?" "What!" I asked, "did Davie come ashore?" "Ay, did he," said the fisherman; "he was picked up by his own boat, and they brought him ashore here the next morning. We sent three luggers out to seek you yourself, when we heard that you were aboard the Falcon alone, but they could find you nowhere."
The brothers Pritchard told their story as a party conducted Thomasin back to her home. For the moment Gray Michael stood irresolute and alone, save for his dog, which ran round him. "Us was tackin' when it fust began to blaw, an' all bustlin' 'bout in the dark, when the mainsail went lerrickin' 'cross an' knocked the poor dam bwoy owerboard into as ugly a rage o' water as ever I seed.
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