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CHAPTER XIX.
BBOWN AND I EXCHANGE COMPUMENTS.
Two trips later, I got into serious trouble. Brown was steer-big; I
was * pulling down,' My younger brother appeared on the hurrio ne
deck, and shouted to Brown to stop at some landing or other a mile
or so below. Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything.
But that was his way: he never condescended to take notice of an
under clerk. The wind was blowing; Brown was deaf (although lie
always pretended he wasn't), and I very much doubted if he had
heard the order. If I had had two heads, I would have spoken ; but as
I had only one, it seemed judicious to take care of it; so I kept still.
Presently, sure enough, we went sailing by that plantation
Captain Klinefelter appeared on the deck, and said—
* Let her come around, sir, let her eome around. Didn't Henry
tell you to land here $ *
'Vo, sir!'
* I sent him up to do it/
* He did come up; and that's all the good it done, the dod-derned
fool. He never said anything.'
* Didn't you hear him ? * asked the captain of me.
Of course I didn't want to be mixed up in this business, but there
was no way to avoid it; so I said—
'Yes, sir.*
I knew what Brown's next remark would be, before he uttered
it; it was—
* Shut your mouth ! you never heard anything of the kind,*
I closed my mouth according to instructions. An hour later,
Henry entered the pilot-house, unaware of what had been going on
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