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"Quite so I thought, I believed that between there and----"

"Say between there and Baton Rouge----"

"Well, yes----"

"He would come to the main point?"

"Yes"

"And he did not?"

"You can best answer It was at Natchez that you and those ruffianly

boys ran off with Mr Davidson's boat!"

"That's all, your Honor," I reht you have to cross-questiona passing sea-gull, and pulling

down the corners of her otten art comes back to me once in a while, my

dear Mrs Daniver," I answered exultantly "Pray, do you notice how

beautiful all the world is this ? The sky is so wonderful, the

sea so adorable, don't you see?"

"I see that we are a long way from home Tell me, are these sharks

here?"

"Oodles," said I, "and very large No use trying to say And

yonder coast is inhabited only by hostile cannibals Barataria itself,

over yonder, is to-day no e, part

Chinese, part Greek and part Sicilian The railway runs far to the

north, and the ship channel is far to the east No one comes here It