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Blue Jackets

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
12/18

Go put on new blue silk flock.

Leady dilectly." Ten minutes later we were being rowed ashore, to be landed at the wharf where we met with so unpleasant an attack a short time before.

But there was no mob of idlers there now, and we stepped ashore, leaving the good-natured-looking crew smiling at us, and giving the shops many a longing look, as they pushed off and began to row back at once.
"Plenty time," said Ching.

"You likee fust go lestaulant--eatee, dlinkee, spend plize-money ?" "Can't spend what we haven't yet got, Ching," said Barkins.

"What do you say, lads?
I'm hungry again, aren't you ?" Smith sighed.
"I'm always hungry," he said.
"Of course you are.


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