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leaves and cinnamon — and we went on deck 

 again. 



"When the men came back from furl in' the 

 sail, he points out the old fellow and says as 

 how he had fallen off the upper deck with a lurch 

 of the ship. 'Carry him into the passengers' 

 galley' he says. We took passengers only on the 

 v'age from London to New York, not the other 

 way, and they had the use of the galley on the 

 port side where they cooked their food. The 

 ship's galley was on the starboard side. Well, 

 the men toted the poor wreck to the galley as 

 the mate said, and then stowed themselves as 

 much out of the wet as they could for the rest of 

 the watch. 



"I stayed in the lea of the mainmast not know- 

 ing what else to do, and the mate he stomped up 

 and down on the deck. Bymby he calls to me 

 and tells me to go for'ward to the passengers' 

 galley, and see how the old cuss was. Course I 

 took the lantern out of the binacle and obeyed 

 orders, but I was scared chilly — I could smell 

 death in the air as I came to the galley, and there 

 was the cook's cat — black as a coal — mewin' like 



