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The Stowaway Girl

CHAPTER XII
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Used to sing a Jarman song once.

What was that you was a-hummin' in your cabin?
Nice chune.

I've a musical ear meself." Someone sang a verse in a subdued baritone, tremulous with sentiment.
The melody was haunting, the words almost pathetic under the conditions of life on board the disheveled _Unser Fritz_.

They told of Vienna, the city beloved of its sons.
Es gibt nur eine Kaiser Stadt, Es gibt nur eine Wien.
"Shake, me boy!" cried the enraptured Watts to the ship's captain.

"I do'n' know wot it's all about, but it's reel fine.


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