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One morning, about a week after the day on which the old sailor, to use his own expression, had bent a skirt on Emmeline, Dick came through the woods and across the sands running. He had been on the hilltop.
"Paddy," he cried to the old man, who was fixing a hook on a fishing-line, "there's a ship!"