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"Seems dazed to me, Cap'en Blowser," observed the mate.

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"It's a good job that Cap'en Harding didn't get any more of those blessed Greeks aboard: they're almost equal to us now, man for man," said Tom to Charley, who on this first night of their being at sea after so long a detention in port was performing an act of not altogether disinterested friendship in sharing the first watch on deck of the newly-promoted "second mate," as he would persist in addressing Tom.

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"Mustn't carry on too much, though, Cap'en!" said the mate with a knowing twinkle of his eye, which the skipper could read plainly enough.

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"Why, Cap'en Blowser, I served all through the war after Gettysburgh as sich."

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"I wouldn't have given him that order, if I were you, Cap'en," said the mate, as they went down the companion together.

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"Exactly so, Cap'en; and when he wakes by and by, I hope he'll be himself again."

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"But, does Cap'en Harding know about them?" asked Tom, sinking his objection to having any conversation with the second officer in the urgency of the occasion.

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"Close on nine knots, Cap'en," answered the man, who had just hove the log over the stern, and now stood, minute-glass in hand, calculating the result.

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Well, Jarvis, you dog -- Cap'en Jarvis, I beg your pardon!

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"He has seen death, Cap'en Blowser," said the mate, solemnly.

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