Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
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overboard in the same night.
Surely there was some mystery in this. Two mornings later the Captain appeared at the breakfast-table with the same shifting and uneasy look in his eye. "Anything wrong, sir?" I asked. "Yes," he answered, trying to appear at ease and twisting a fried egg to and fro between his fingers with such nervous force as almost to break it in two--"I regret to say that we have lost the bosun." "The bosun!" I cried. "Yes," said Captain Bilge more quietly, "he is overboard. I blame myself for it, partly. It was early this morning. I was holding him up in my arms to look at an iceberg and, quite accidentally I assure you--I dropped him overboard." "Captain Bilge," I asked, "have you taken any steps to recover him?" "Not as yet," he replied uneasily. I looked at him fixedly, but said nothing. Ten days passed. The mystery thickened. On Thursday two men of the starboard watch were reported missing. On Friday the carpenter's assistant |
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