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sibly full of "wigglers," as the larvae of
mosquitoes are called.

ocr>   Jack raised the man's head, which he had succeeding
fix>   Jack raised the man's head, which he had succeeded
in washing to some extent, and forcing
open his mouth allowed some of the contents of
the pannikin to drain down his throat.

This set him to coughing and so he came to,
showing all the signs of bewilderment that might
be expected after going to sleep in the midst of
a most clamorous battle with the reckless hijackers,
and now waking up to find strange faces
bending over him, heads that were encased in
close-fitting helmets and the staring goggles of
airmen.

"You're all right, brother," Jack assured the
man, on seeing how alarmed he appeared to be.
"Your crew skipped out and deserted you, but
we'll stand by. Consider yourself a prisoner of
Uncle Sam, although you'll not be punished any
to speak of if only you open up and tell all you
know about the owners and the skipper of this
smuggler craft. What's her name and where
are you from?"

The man had by this time recovered sufficiently
to understand what was required of him.
Jack's manner was reassuring, and he came out
of his half panic so as to make quite a civil reply
to the questions asked.

So they learned that the sloop had been known

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