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"We're only grabbing what's handy just now Soo forward is

above water I' in a sort of queer wayboat

skipper afforded the man in the fur coat an opportunity for a little

conversation about himself "I'ht on the jump after I'd swapped a wire or so with the

house Happened into that auction, and bought blind I believe in a

gamble myself Then somebody wired to the concern that they had been

stuck good and fine, and they gave e A man can sit at desk in Boston and think up a whole lot

of things that ain't so Well, I've flown out here hat equipment

I could scrape up in a hurry, and you can see what I'o to square me with the concern

But, blast the luck! If Jake Sirit and would back

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