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For a moment Benny was bewildered. He could not tell what he ought / to do. He had not been on a steamboat since he was quite a little / fellow, and that it was possible to send him ashore was out of the / question. "What will mother think? " was his first thought. "How shall / I get back? " was his second. He stood looking around him, each moment / increasing the distance between the steamboat and the shore.
"Hallo! " cried a voice at his side, "what are you doing here? " And / looking up, Benny saw the man whom he had talked to that morning on the / dock.