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The Wing-and-Wing

CHAPTER XIX
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What are you thinking of, Airchy ?" "Of just that, Captain Lyon.

It would be dividing every lieutenant's share by three, as well as every captain's." "That's it, Airchy, and so ye'll have a shairp lookout on deck.

There'll be no occasion to run down quite as far as Captain Cuffe suggested, ye'll obsairve; for, if in the bay, the lugger will work her way up toward this headland, and we'll be all the more likely to fall in with her, by keeping near it ourselves.

Ye'll take the idea ?" "It's plain enou', Captain Lyon; and I'll be obsairving it.

How is the law understood as respects dairkness?
I understand that none share but such as are in _sight_; but is dairkness deemed a legal impediment ?" "To be sure it is; the idea being that all who can see may act.


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