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Captains Courageous

CHAPTER X
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They would hear later the names of their lost dead--one hundred and seventeen of them.

(The widows stared a little, and looked at one another here.) Gloucester could not boast any overwhelming mills or factories.

Her sons worked for such wage as the sea gave; and they all knew that neither Georges nor the Banks were cow-pastures.

The utmost that folk ashore could accomplish was to help the widows and the orphans; and after a few general remarks he took this opportunity of thanking, in the name of the city, those who had so public-spiritedly consented to participate in the exercises of the occasion.
"I jest despise the beggin' pieces in it," growled Disko.

"It don't give folk a fair notion of us." "Ef folk won't be fore-handed an' put by when they've the chance," returned Salters, "it stands in the nature o' things they hev to be 'shamed.


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