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Cap'n Joab felt almost as though Cap'n Abe's sudden departure
was a thrust at him.
But when he introduced himself to Cap'n Amazon the latter seized the
caller's hand in a seaman's grip, and said heartily: "I want to know
Cap'n Joab Beecher, of the old _Sally Noble_. I knowed the bark well,
though I never happened to clap eyes on _you_, sir. Abe give me a
letter for you. Here 'tis. Said you was a good feller and might help
wise me to things in the store here till I'd l'arned her riggin' and
how to sail her proper."
Cap'n Joab was frankly pleased by this. He spelled out the note Cap'n
Abe had addressed to him slowly, being without his reading glasses, and
then said:
"I'm yours to command, Cap'n Silt. Land sakes! I s'pose your brother
had a puffict right to go away. He'd talked about goin' enough.
Where's he gone?"
"On a v'y'ge," said Cap'n Amazon.
"No! Gone to sea?"
"Yes. Sailing to-day--out o' Boston."
"I want to know! Abe Silt gone to sea! Wouldn't never believed it.
Always 'peared to be afraid of gettin' his paws wet--same's a cat,"
ruminated Cap'n Joab.


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