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Extract from Captain
everybody here, too, but I will let that drop. It don't matter, and I am plenty happy enough anyway."
"Captain, you are happier than you would be, the other way. These old patriarchs and prophets have got ages the start of you; they know more in two minutes than you know in a year. Did you ever try to have a sociable improving-time discussing winds, and currents and variations of compass with an undertaker?"
"I get your idea, Sandy. He couldn't interest me. He would be an ignoramus in such things—he would bore me, and I would bore him."
"You have got it. You would bore the patriarchs when you talked, and when they talked they would shoot
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