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point above 40. You can go up inside the old sycamore snag, now."[1]

"CHANGING WATCH."
"CHANGING WATCH."

"CHANGING WATCH."

So that question was answered. Here were leagues of shore changing shape. My spirits were down in the mud again. Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was, that in order to be a pilot a man had got to learn more than any one man ought to be allowed to know; and the other was, that he must learn it all over again in a different way every twenty-four hours.

That night we had the watch until twelve. Now it was an

  1. It may not be necessary, but still it can do no harm to explain that "inside" means between the snug and the shore.—M. T.