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"Poor old chap!" said the captain "You mustn't be too hard upon him

for that, Valmai, becos Ay dare say he couldn't help it P'r'aps you

wouldn't believe it now, but there was a tairew upon !--even the

milk for breakfast--and Ay'm dashed if Ay could stop it, Valmai May

poor mother was alive then, and she sez to me one day with tears in her

eyes, 'Tray,entle voice So Ay sez to mayself, 'John,' Ay

sez, 'you are a d--d fool You're killing your mother with your

foolish swears Pull up short,' sez Ay, 'and tray and faind some other

word that'll do' So Ay fixed upon 'tarnished,' and Ay'rand word! Puts you in

, and lots of shippy things

'Twas hard to get used to it at first; but 'ponBut there! go on with the story

Where e?"

Valmai was a little bewildered by the captain's reirl, or rather the young wife,

had gone to live with her other uncle Here she would have been as

happy as the day is long, had it not been for the continual sorrow for