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... miss the tide . At length the captain came , as fast as two pair of oars could pull him , looking very red and angry ; no mate , but a strange man sitting in the stern sheets beside him . It seemed the mate had given him the slip at the ...
... miss the tide . At length the captain came , as fast as two pair of oars could pull him , looking very red and angry ; no mate , but a strange man sitting in the stern sheets beside him . It seemed the mate had given him the slip at the ...
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... miss your way ; keep to the left a little , I'll to the right , and we shall have him between us , for Phil and John must be beat by this time . Your path is short and easy , give your horse a moment to wind , and then don't spare him ...
... miss your way ; keep to the left a little , I'll to the right , and we shall have him between us , for Phil and John must be beat by this time . Your path is short and easy , give your horse a moment to wind , and then don't spare him ...
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... missed his footing , and was found by some lads that went next morning to take up their night - lines , stone dead - drowned . " There was poor Lucy left all alone in the world , for her father , who had been a dragoon farrier , and ...
... missed his footing , and was found by some lads that went next morning to take up their night - lines , stone dead - drowned . " There was poor Lucy left all alone in the world , for her father , who had been a dragoon farrier , and ...
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... Miss Caltons . I knew they were not rich , and could not help except by giving her a good name - by giving a character to the convict's wife ! We were to have met again the next day ; the poor soul had walked twenty miles to Winchester ...
... Miss Caltons . I knew they were not rich , and could not help except by giving her a good name - by giving a character to the convict's wife ! We were to have met again the next day ; the poor soul had walked twenty miles to Winchester ...
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... missed ; so that all I had to do , when I took a bullock team to Sydney , was to yoke an extra pair of young bullocks , making ten or twelve pair , instead of eight or ten - a butcher , near where the drays generally stood , was already ...
... missed ; so that all I had to do , when I took a bullock team to Sydney , was to yoke an extra pair of young bullocks , making ten or twelve pair , instead of eight or ten - a butcher , near where the drays generally stood , was already ...
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