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in their place by the gunwale.

“Where’s the sail and mast?” said Harvey, for his hands were beginning to blister.

Dan chuckled. “Ye don’t sail fishin’-dories much. Ye pull; but ye needn’t pull so hard. Don’t you wish you owned her?”

“Well, I guess my father might give me one or two if I asked ’em,” Harvey replied. He had been too busy to think much of his family till then.

“That’s so. I forgot your dad’s a millionaire. You don’t act millionary any, naow. But a dory an’ craft an’ gear”⁠—Dan spoke as though she were a whaleboat⁠—“costs a heap. Think your dad ’u’d give you one fer⁠—fer a pet like?”

“Shouldn’t wonder. It would be ’most the only thing I haven’t stuck him for yet.”

“Must be an expensive kinder kid to home. Don’t slitheroo

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