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THE SEA-SERPENT. 
as a visit from him for a month or week, and 
hoped he ’d come, if he had leisure, health, 
strength, and fun at the beach to seek. He read 
them through with a careless air, and said, u They 
always bore me with these ; yet I ’ve half a 
mind to go, I declare, and teach them that I am 
King of the Seas, and should go if I chose, 
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though I was n’t invited ; yet I own it’s pleas¬ 
anter not to be slighted. Mr. Morgan has got 
up the Cape Ann Pavilion, and he wants me 
to come ; he ’s a clever civilian as ever you ’ll 
chance in your travels to meet ; he has boats 
that are safe and steeds that are fleet. So he 
says, and I know every word of it’s true ; for 
when at Nahant he kept there with Drew, he 
used to come off every day in a boat, some time 
in the morning between eight and nine, and 
having secured to his fish-hook a note, he would 
then very cautiously drop me a line. Let me 
see,” said the serpent, u I think I’ve his note. 
No. But he wrote it so often, I’ve got it by 
rote ; — and something like this the document 
