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warm-hearted sailors make ! Old-fashioned books — with 
ragged bindings, perhaps, but full of the most inter- 
esting, wide-world stories. Then I light my pipe and 
turn into my bunk, whilst Bruce by candle-light adds 
the little store that he has gathered in the day from 
the Infinite, to^the Finite of science. 
Peter White, £ The Cook of our gallant Ship. 
