PORPESSE. 



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in those parts, and wished to know whether we 

 were Hkely to meet one. I told her that we 

 probably should meet several, but not so many 

 as if a gale were impending. At this reply her 

 fright evidently increased, and she asked, in much 

 trepidation, whether, if we did meet one, it would 

 upset the ship ! 



