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Mayo knew so of the methods of schooner masters and was not

surprised by the last reallant old days, when it was the custo craft in the high seas off the

Delaware coast, with Europe for a lee, would have been vieith a

certain aures that there's less wear and tear if he

anchors and rides it out To be sure, it's no sort of a place for a

squeamish person, aboard a loaded schooner whose s her about, but the ers are not squea forward slowly, stopping at

regular intervals The light of a lantern played upon their dripping

oilskins When they arrived at the break of the nized Captain Downs and the first mate The

seconda es!" co her back up so for the storeroom "I don't blame her ht" He ordered Mayo to accompany

him

In a fewthe

two-headed es

Captain Downs bestowed on Mayo about the saalley cockroach He pointed to a gap in the rail