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"Aye, Cap'n--and then?"

"Then you shall try what you can do wi' one o' those long guns o' yours"

"Lord love ye, Cap'n, that's the spirit!" cried Godby, hitching joyously at his broad belt, "All I asks is a fair light and no favour!"

"And you have the et a wink o' sleep," says Adam, "but do you call me so soon as we raise her hull As for you, Martin, you'll have slept your fill, I judge"

"And yet I'uy drowsy still!" says I

"There's a spare berth in the coach, comrade, an you're so minded!"

"Nay, Adam, I'll watch awhile with Godby"

"Good! You've keen eyes, Martin--use 'eoes down the ladder forthwith

And now, pacing the lofty poop beside Godby, I are that the "Faithful Friend" was dark fore and aft, not a light twinkled anywhere

"How coreat stern lanthorns above us

"Cap'n's orders, Mart'n! We've been dark these two nights, and yet if yon craft is e think, 'twould seem she follows us by sht she was fair to be seen having closed us during the day, so out go our lights and up goes our helm and we stand away froain--if yon ship be the same"

"Which we shall learn in an hour or so, Godby"

"Aye, Mart'n, if she don't s and bear away from us And yet sheroomer or on a bowline"

"Roomer? Speak plain, Godby, I'm no mariner!"

"Tie,' and 'large' -wind, and thataway from the wind or the wind astarn of us; whiles 'on a bowline' in the wind, d'ye see?"

"Godby, 'tis hard to believe you that same peddler I fell in with at the 'Hop-pole'"

"Why, Mart'n, I' Give i'e me a ship and I'm all mariner to handle her sweet and kind and lay ye a course wi' any--though guns is my meat, Mart'n Fifteen year I followed the sea and a man is apt to learn a little in such tiunner but re the crew, as ever sailed--and all along o' that sa at the 'Hop-pole'"