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" And Jim
had wrung my hand with a "God bless you, Loudon!--saved
me again!"
Hard following upon this, the supper passed off at
Frank's with somewhat tremulous gaiety; and thence,
with one-half of the Perrier-Jouet--I would accept no
more--we voyaged in a hack to the NORAH CREINA.
"What a dear little ship!" cried Mamie, as our
miniature craft was pointed out to her; and then, on
second thought, she turned to the best man. "And how
brave you must be, Mr. Dodd," she cried, "to go in that
tiny thing so far upon the ocean!" And I perceived I
had risen in the lady's estimation.
The "dear little ship" presented a horrid picture of
confusion, and its occupants of weariness and ill-
humour. From the cabin the cook was storing tins into
the lazarette, and the four hands, sweaty and sullen,
were passing them from one to another from the waist.
Johnson was three parts asleep over the table; and in
his bunk, in his own cabin, the captain sourly chewed
and puffed at a cigar.
"See here," he said, rising; "you'll be sorry you came.
We can't stop work if we're to get away to-morrow.


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