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Oh, that was a lonely sea! It was gray and surly and os waved dish the cordage of the little schooner; the

es the te in this weather that's worse than scorched-on

hasty pudding," stated Captain Can-dage "I don't know just how you

feel, sir, but if a feller should ride up here in a hearse about now

and want my option on her for what I paid, I believe I'd dicker with him

before we co ot it, what the devil shall we do with it?'"

"Let's pile ashore on the trail of thehters and dicker it, and be

sensible," advised his associate "I feel as if I owned a share in old

Poppocatterpettul--or whatever that mountain is--and had been ordered to

move it in a shawl-strap"

Mayo surveyed their newly acquired property through the advancing dusk

"I believe I know a feller we can unload onto," persisted Candage "He

has done so, and is a reckless cuss"

"Look here," snapped his associate, "we'll settle one point right now,