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Then cauests in

that tavern of the seas

Avant couriers of a metropolitan yacht club, on its annual cruise,

arrived, jockeying in with billowing mountains of snowy canvas spread to

catch the last whispers of the breeze Later arrivals, after the breeze

failed, were towed in by the smart motor craft of the fleet One by one,

as the anchors splashed, brass cannons barked salute and were answered

by the coun

Captain Candage sat on the edge of the Polly's house and snapped

an involuntary and wrathful wink every ti had -board There were cheery hails, yachtse of the day's experiences, and

frisking yacht tenders, barking staccato exhausts, began to carry men to

and fro on errands of sociability In the silences Captain Candage could

hear the popping of chah and sleep in the garret," observed

Oakued on the top of the house and was

ha down the lumps in a freshly twisted eye-splice with the end of

a rowled Captain Candage, "how dudes