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and crackers and maltedmilk tablets and in the morning you'd walk round the deck andthere would be Mr. I needn't have worriedin any case. Durginchuckled fatly. When Dad scolded her about her recklessness she'd tel him he oughtn't to care because she was going back east to earn her own living and he'd be rid of her.

re was a little moon behind fleecy clouds and they sat down in the new grass where it was dark behind stacks of fresh-cut lumber laid out to season. We'd sit there laughing and yelling and blowingstraw-wrappers around, some of the guys half-loaded but nobody mean. One night when Gaskin and his boy had gone ashore and Joe was on watch the second engineer of the tug, '5 character in a book I read once, I said, watching Ki play with thelittle puffball dog.