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UNCLE. "I don't know any such thing, you huzzy! How should I? I
think it only makes the matter more remarkable, Doctor Dubble L. Dee-
KATE. Why, papa, Captain Pratt went round Cape Horn, and Captain
Smitherton doubled the Cape of Good Hope."
UNCLE. "Precisely!- the one went east and the other went west, you
jade, and they both have gone quite round the world. By the by, Doctor
Dubble L. Dee-
MYSELF. [Hurriedly.] "Captain Pratt, you must come and spend the
evening with us to-morrow- you and Smitherton- you can tell us all
about your voyage, and well have a game of whist and-
PRATT. "Wist, my dear fellow- you forget. To-morrow will be
Sunday. Some other evening-
KATE. "Oh, no. fie!- Robert's not quite so bad as that. To-day's
Sunday."
PRATT. "I beg both your pardons- but I can't be so much mistaken.
I know to-morrow's Sunday, because-"
SMITHERTON. [Much surprised.] "What are you all thinking about?
Wasn't yesterday, Sunday, I should like to know?"
ALL. "Yesterday indeed! you are out!"
UNCLE. "To-days Sunday, I say- don't I know?"
PRATT. "Oh no!- to-morrow's Sunday."
SMITHERTON. "You are all mad- every one of you. I am as positive
that yesterday was Sunday as I am that I sit upon this chair."
KATE. [jumping up eagerly.] "I see it- I see it all. Papa, this is a
judgment upon you, about- about you know what.
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