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Nell eyed the _Annie Laurie_ lovingly, but said apologetically: "She's a very good boat Old, of course She is a herring boat, and

though she isn't fascinatingly beautiful, she can sail Dick--helped by

Brownie--decked her over, and Dick picked up a new set of sails last

year froear Have you put in the bait

and the lines, Willy?"

"Aye, aye, Miss Nell; I'ettin' some mackerel if

the wind holds Let e Oh, please don't you trouble!" she

added to Vernon "If you'll give me the sheet--that's the rope by your

hand"

Vernon nodded, and suppressed a so a bit tauter still, I think," he said, as Nell hoisted the

mainsail

She looked at him

"You understand?" she said, with a little surprise

Vernon thought of his crack yacht, but answered casually: "I've done so!" said Nell "This isn't yachting You must feel a kind of

conteood boat, I can see," he said

Nell took up the oars, but she had to pull only a few strokes, for the