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"Like great birds?" Billy Fairfax asked with interest

"Exactly"

"Bats froton Because of his

constant globe-trotting, Addington's slang was often a half-decade

behind the tiht," Frank Merrill explained "Lucky thing, we don't any

of us have to wear glasses We'd certainly be up against it in this

double glare Sand and sun both, you see! And you can thank whatever

instinct that's kept you all in training This shipwreck is the most

perfect case I've ever seen of the survival of the fittest"

And in fact, they were all, except for Pete Murphy, big -e tide had not entirely subsided, but there was a perceptible

diht of the waves Up beyond the water-line lay a

fresh installment of jetsam But, as before, they labored only to save

the flotsa a huge trench Frank Merrill presiding, they

buried the dead with appropriate cereton said with a shudder "I hate

death and everything to do with it"