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The World of Ice

CHAPTER XXVI
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Like Tom Singleton and Fred, he became deeply interested in the condition of the poor, and had a special weakness for _poor old women,_ which he exhibited by searching up, and doing good to, every poor old woman in the parish.

Captain Ellice was also celebrated for his garden, which was a remarkably fine one; for his flagstaff, which was a remarkably tall and magnificent one; and for his telescope, which constantly protruded from his drawingroom window, and pointed in the direction of the sea.
As for the others--Captain Guy continued his career at sea as commander of an East Indiaman.

He remained stout and true-hearted to the last, like one of the oak timbers of his own good ship.
Bolton, Saunders, Mivins, Peter Grim, Amos Parr, and the rest of them, were scattered in a few years, as sailors usually are, to the four quarters of the globe.

O'Riley alone was heard of again.

He wrote to Buzzby "by manes of the ritin' he had larn'd aboord the _Dolfin_," informing him that he had forsaken the "say" and become a small farmer near Cork.


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