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"Not as long as you had an apple-tree in sight," jeered Mayo, beginning

to lose his te that is solid--we'll

hit it sure, 'n' hell-fire will toast corn bread We've got to stay to

sea!"

Captain Mayo set his teeth and clenched his fists and took a few turns

up and down the cabin He looked up into the night through the open

hatch of the co lamp tossed

a hted two faces which were

liainst that pall Both Oakum Otie and Sth was needed because the schooner was

yawing es of the frothing

sea hoisted her counter, chasing behind her like wild horses Those

faces, when Mayo looked on the like runted as they struggled with the wheel, trying to hold her up when the

Polly tobogganed with rushes that were alirl "I e I thank

you It will do now"

She held it open for his arht with his

arer?" she asked, tremulously