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Juganu said, "What about me?"

Father shook his head "I knew you were huhter-one I hed, and I saw then how hard it was for hienerally did

His bird dropped onto his shoulder "Have bird!"

"Yes A great blessing" He gave the bird a bit of bacon, then put his plate down in front of Babbie He had eaten two or three mouthfuls "I hate to disturb your er and reef thethe last knot I have been in worse blows, and in fact I was in a couple e sailed with Captain Wijzer; but it would have been foolish to go back to the Red Sun Whorl until things had quieted down, three or four hours after daylight

Down in the cabin, Father and Juganu and I took off our clothes and dried ourselves as well as we could It felt very good to lie on e the way I had before

After a while soain

"Get up," he said "You don't want to sleep through this"

That was exactly what I did want, but after aon wood instead ofthe way I remembered

Sooing to say here that they're all different Two that are about the same size and look about the same will act about the same sometimes, but they are never exactly the sa river boat ere on, was a roller, and when you were up on the high parts, it really rolled a lot, just like you had cliular boat

Our boat wasis s to keep on till the boat turns over Our boat was more of a pitcher, too, because it was only about a quarter as long

Anyway, I sat up then but it was so dark I could not see much I asked the anu," which ht that lit up everything, and I saw Father out on the bowsprit holding it up His bird was on his shoulder, and the girl he said was Scylla was out on the bowsprit too, farther out even than he was

Then he shut his hand and the light was gone, and everything was as black as inside a cave I heard the watch asking each other questions Afterward I found out they had been sleeping on the deck, mostly I heard boots, too, but I did not pay et forward, and afraid of bu worse I was not even sure this boat had a railing all the way around, because ours did not have any railing at all, and I was afraid of falling off So while I orrying about all that, I bumped somebody short and hairy and as hard as rock I kneho that was right away, and how dangerous he was, too, so I said, "It'shappened then that surprisedI saw on the Red Sun Whorl, except for the part right at the last Because Babbie threw his ar "Huh! Huh! Huh!" and lifted me off my feet Babbie's ars, and he was the strongest person I ever met

About then the mate came up, and Babbie putit up in anu's Neither of them liked it I did not like itfor Father but he had probably been down in the ht, so he had not seen him

I was afraid that if I told the mate where Father was, he would make him fall off So I said, "What's the trouble? If you need help, we'll lend a hand"

All those people were hard to understand because of the way they talked, and he was one of the hardest He said soet him to say it over two or three tiun" He talked like that all the ti to write it like that, or not o?" he wanted to know

I pretended I had not understood that either and said, "You're looking for Father, aren't you? Wasn't that why you were shining your light in our faces?"

He agreed

"Father has hired this boat He'll want a full report Where are we?"

"Half day fro till "

By that tih to realize that he was not the old to I said "You're not the captain Where is he?"

"Sleepin'"

"Bring him here Father ant to see hi hirabbed his arht as well have been a girl's doll The lantern fell down and went out

Father must have heard the noise, and he was there like he had flown He opened his hand to let so on the ether in one of his hands His hands were a lot bigger than his real ones back home, but he still had the really thick nails he walked on, and only two big fingers on each hand Father , strong-looking man with one of those faces that are all cheeks and chin

"I'm sorry you were hurt, if you were," Father told him "Babbie can be too quick to take offense I realize that"

Babbie was pointing to his e him so he could talk, and I did not think Father could do that But Father knew right ahat he wanted He gave Babbie a big curved knife with a double-edged blade, and then another one just like it, telling him he had to be careful how he used the to do to Babbie someday, but Scylla told him to fetch the captain or ould make him jump overboard Father's hand was almost closed then so she was hard to see, but she took hold of theto turn him around, and her hands and ar as much like ours as Babbie's were They were like snakes, with suckingaway froanu said, "Blood," and it sounded like he was praying

Father's light went out, I think because he did not want anu said, "No Never"

I was thinking that it was probably a lot easier to change your shape like she had if you were not really here I tried to touch her, but I could not find her in the dark