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? ? ? ? 'And still no more dead men,' I twitted Louis, when Smoke and Henderson, side by side, in friendly conversation, took their first exercise on deck.

? ? ? ? Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously.

? ? ? ? 'She's a-comin', I tell you, an' it'll be sheets an' halyards, stand by all hands, when she begins to howl. I've had the feel iv it this long time, an' I can feel it now as plainly as I feel the riggin' iv a dark night. She's close, she's close.'

? ? ? ? 'Who goes first?' I queried.

? ? ? ? 'Not old fat Louis, I promise you,' he laughed. 'For 't is in the bones iv me I know that come this time next year I'll be gazin' in the old mother's eyes, weary with watchin' iv the sea for the five sons she gave to it.'

? ? ? ? 'Wot's'e been s'yin' to yer?' Thomas Mugridge demanded a moment later.


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