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the passengers to land, or for any of their friends to come 

 ,on board. A few adventurous gentlemen, however, more 

 'bold or more agile than the rest, were soon seen clamber- 

 ing up over the piles and getting from them into the rig- 

 ging, so as to come on board. Among them John's eye 

 fell upon a boy who was stopping one of these gentlemen 

 and asking him to give him his hand to help him across a 

 very dangerous place. 



" Look ! Lawrence, look !" said John ; " there's Flippy ! 

 I verily believe that's Flippy !" 



It was indeed Flippy. He had seen in the newspaper 

 the names of Lawrence and John in the list of the passen- 

 gers that were to cross the Atlantic in that steamer, which 

 had been telegraphed to New York, and, being in New 

 York at the time, had come down to welcome them to 

 their native land. 



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