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vessels. Some people sav that they have seen
him lie out straight on the hall at the top of the
big mast of the Palmerston and spin himself
round. But others say that is a whopper, for
the Palmerston is the biggest ship in town with
the very highest masts. Perhaps he could lie
and balance himself on top of it, but spin
himself round! That he couldn’t do if he tried till
he was blue in the face.
Then there are Massa, and Mina, and I.
Mina is Xils’s sister and my best friend. She
has a gold filling in one of her front teeth. Oh,
if I could only have such a shilling little spot as
that in my teeth! Mine are only plain straight
white ones and they look really duli beside hers.
Massa Peckell is plump and easy-going.
She thinks the most beautiful thing is to be pale
and thin. She heard that it would give you a
delicate pale skin if you drank vinegar and ate
rice soup, so she tried it as hard as she could.
But her beauty-cure only gave her the
stomach-ache. Her fat, red cheeks are just like
Bald-win apples still.
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