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JOIINNY BLOSSOM
strange man sat opposite with elbows on the
table, looking at him and smiling. Suddenly
the man took out a leather case and from it a
photograph, which he handed across the table to
Johnny. It showed two boys about Johnny’s
age. The man pointed to the boys and then to
himself and smiled again, and Johnny
understood that these were his boys.
How curious to think that this man had two
boys and that they were English! He certainly
was very fond of them — this queer man with
the gray beard. Now he put the photograph
into the case again and into his pocket, slapped
his breast and smiled. Englishmen were
certainly odd, thought Johnny. And those boys —
just boys like himself — could speak English
without studying it. Think of that!
The man then showed Johnny over the whole
steamer. Above one of the hammocks hung a
picture of the same two boys; and when they
came to this, the man laughed again and laid
his hand upon his heart.
Then he gave Johnny a whistle — a regular
boatswain’s whistle. He put it right into
Johnny’s pocket, and of course that meant that he
wanted to give it to him. So Johnny Blossom
shook hands with him and bowed his thanks.
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