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One had been made at the head of the GaySnowballers and boats discharged and took off cargoes from a mole or wharf, in a quiet place, safe from southeasters. For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering. Here then our progress was stopped, and we wore ship, and once more stood to the northward and eastward; not for the straits of Magellan, but to make another attempt to double the Cape, still farther to the eastward; for the captain was determined to get round if perseverance could do it; and the third time, he said, never failed. After a few days, finding the trade beginning to slacken, we hove our anchor up, set our topsails, ran the stars and stripes up to the peak, fired a gun, which was returned from the Presidio, and left the little town astern, running out of the bay, and bearing down the coast again, for Santa Barbara. Closing his eyes, and picking his words with difficulty, a tall, fair peasant drawls in thick, gluelike tones: 'Very well,' I said: and off we set. The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. Why, certainly,said the good-natured Rat, jumping to his feet and dismissing poetry from his mind for the day. For the past three years he had thus been roaming the cemetery, though his legs were too weak to support his undersized, shattered body; and whenever he caught his foot he fell, and for long could not rise, but lay gasping and fumbling among the grass, and rooting it up, and sniffing with a nose as sharp and red as though the skin had been flayed from it. We all know Toad!'--(great laughter)--GOOD Toad, MODEST Toad, HONEST Toad!(shrieks of merriment). That was evidently GaySnowballers crime of crimes, the one offence there was no condoning nor overlooking.
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