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"Haven't you any one in Middleport that can raise that engine? " I asked, with a pleasant smile, after I had taken a seat in Tommy Toppleton's beautiful sail-boat, with my old skiff in tow.
"Of course we have," replied the Toppleton junior; "but I'm afraid it will take a week for them to do it. They are talking about rigging a derrick on the wharf."