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He told Louise before night:
"I tell you what, Abe's got the best of it! If I'd knowed I was goin'
to be picked to pieces by a lot of busybodies the way I be, I'd never
agreed to stay by the ship till Abe got back. No, sir! These folks
around here are the beatenest I ever see."
Yet Louise noticed that he seemed able to hold his own with the curious
ones. His tongue was quite as nimble as Cap'n Abe's had been. On the
day of her arrival, Lou Grayling had believed she would be amused at
Cardhaven. Ere the second twenty-four hours of her stay were rounded
out, she knew she would be.


CHAPTER VIII
SOMETHING ABOUT SALT WATER TAFFY
During the day Cap'n Amazon and Amiel Perdue carried Louise's trunks
upstairs and into the storeroom, handy to her own chamber. It seems
Cap'n Amazon had not brought his own sea chest; only a "dunnage bag,"
as he called it.
"But there's plenty of Abe's duds about," he said; "and we're about of
a size."
When Louise went to unpack her trunks she found a number of things in
the storeroom more interesting even than her own pretty summer frocks.


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