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be with partners--give and take, with never a
bleat if our calculations go wrong."

"It's right nice o' you to talk that way,
brother," Perk hastened to assert, beaming with
pride and making out as if tempted to begin
scratching again when Jack reaching around,
gently steered his clutching fingers away from
the itching locality, at which Perk heaved a relieved
sigh and nodded his thanks.

"The sky has lost most of that glorious color,"
mentioned the head pilot, "and before long now
we can be hopping-off. Our first job will be to
swing down the coast and learn if there seems to
be anything going on among the southern islands
in this beastly mangrove section where a man
could easy enough lose himself for keeps among
the countless water passages and inlets. See here,
what's the matter with you, staring that way,
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"Wouldn't that jar you now," snapped the
other, "that Robin ship is headin' back this way;
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