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the -.ails. .\nd in mo.'t of the boats that's what happened, hnt [aud here my friend began to speak brokenly like oue <•H'rt'lllllC wirh grief] r•ne poor little boat which was nlwa;s (,eftind Lhe broke d0\m and spurted ont amid a profusion of tears] nearly snnk because nobody but the little crew would help-and it had the littlest crew of all the boats-nnd they had to bail it, row it, and lend to the sails, and they \\·ere always \·cry tired and weary. The other people on the boat nc,·er helped them or e\·en encouraged lhem."
He pardoned his ~pparcnt feminine tendencies-cYideutl.~ rhc tears. Poor chap, he seemed embanassed, but cxplaincfl that the si!!ht was such a sad one th
