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Captain Dohirled and found Mayo there "How do you dare to speak to

me, you tin-kettle sailor?" demanded the master In his passion he went

on: "You're aboard here under false pretenses You can't even do your

work You have er You're

no good! With you aboard here I'm just the same as one man short" But

he had no tian to revile his her each ti boom crashed from side to side

One or two of the backstays had parted, and it was plain that before

long the o by the board

"If that mast comes out it's apt to smash us clear to the water-line,"

laive ht tiood as a wind-ja with some of the sa In that crisis he was bold enough to

presume on his identity as a master mariner "I'd hate to find this kind

of a bunch on any steamboat I've ever had experience with"

Then he ran away before the captain had tier zone on his back, like a runner in a ball gaht him into a safe place between the mainmast and the rabbed the loose end and