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Captain Candage offered no rejoinder to that terse and ue as Captain Ranse Lougee or

any other shore But in this case the round He knew that Captain Lougee had qualified as

father of five In the judgment of a mariner experience counts And

he did not resent the ee because that skipper's

brutal bluntness ell known by his friends Captain Candage had

asked and he had received He rested his elbows on his knees and stared

after the departing caller and pondered

"Maybe he is right He probably is right But it wouldn't be shipboard

discipline if I told her that I have been wrong I reckon I'll go aft

and be pleasant and genteel, hoping that nothing will happen to rile s are cals from a father of five, I'll probably say to her,

'You'd better trot along ho that I have told you how to

mind your eye after this'"