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Michael Brother of Jerry

CHAPTER XVI
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Big John promptly sank out of sight in a sailors' boarding-house, and, within the week, joined the Sailors' Union and shipped on a steam schooner to load redwood ties at Bandon, Oregon.
Ah Moy got no farther ashore than the detention sheds of the Federal Immigration Board, whence he was deported to China on the next Pacific Mail steamer.

The _Mary Turner's_ cat was adopted by the sailors' forecastle of the _Mariposa_, and on the _Mariposa_ sailed away on the back trip to Tahiti.

Scraps was taken ashore by a quartermaster and left in the bosom of his family.
And ashore went Dag Daughtry, with his small savings, to rent two cheap rooms for himself and his remaining responsibilities, namely, Charles Stough Greenleaf, Kwaque, Michael, and, not least, Cocky.

But not for long did he permit the Ancient Mariner to live with him.
"It's not playing the game, sir," he told him.

"What we need is capital.
We've got to interest capital, and you've got to do the interesting.


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