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luckily able to afford Jack just the assistance the
other required so as to perfect his plan of campaign.

Now he believed he could glimpse the amphibian
overhead--yes, the moon, poking her
nose out from behind a bank of clouds, allowed
him to make certain--Jack had swung back and
was circling, so as to keep the sloop within range
of his vision.

"Just like a guardeen angel," mused the
enraptured Perk, standing at his post and sending
frequent curious as well as proud glances
aloft, "as he told me he meant to be. Say, ain't
this simply great stuff we've struck?--never felt
so joyous in all my life as when I smashed them
ocr>   two tear-bombs down on the deck here an*
fix>   two tear-bombs down on the deck here an'
busted up that fightin' mob. Zowie! how quick
they got a move on, every single man but the
one lone dickey we found knocked out down below-stairs.
Ev'rything movin' along like silk--who
cares whether school keeps or not, with us
boys on the top wave o' success."

Then he concluded to stop premature boasting,
ocr>   knowing very well that as in a game of base-ball
fix>   knowing very well that as in a game of baseball
nothing is settled until the last man has been
put out.

So the voyage down the coast continued
steadily enough, the minutes running along into

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