A Jolly Fellowship

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I hustled Tom Myers and his brother George out into the dining-room, and the other fellows followed. " Is this where you eat ? " asked Scott, looking up and down at the long tables, with the swinging shelves above them. " No, this is n't where they eat," said Harry ; " this is where they come to look at victuals, and get sick at the sight of them." " Sick ! " said I; " not much of it." But the committee laughed, and did n't seem to agree with me. " You 'll be sick ten minutes after the boat starts," said Scott. " We wont get into sea-sick water until we 're out of the lower bay," I said. " And this is n't a boat ?it 'a a ship. You fellows know lots ! " Tom Myers and his brother George were trying to find out why the tumblers and glasses were all stuck into holes in the shelves over the tables, when Harry A

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lden sung out: " What 's that swishing ? " " That what ? " said I. "There it goes again !" Harry cried. " Splashing! " " It 's the wheels ! " exclaimed Rectus. " That 's so ! " cried Scott. "The old thing 's off! Rush up ! Here ! The hind-stairs ! Quick ! " And upstairs to the deck we all went, one on top of another. The wheels were going around, and the steamer was off! Already she was quite a distance from the wharf. I suppose the tide carried her out, as soon as the lineswere cast off, for I 'm sure the wheels had not been in motion half a minute before we heard them. But all that made no difference. We were off. I never saw four such blank faces as the committee wore, when they saw the wide space of water between them and the wharf. "Stop her! " cried Scott to me, as if I could do anything, and then he made a dive toward a party of men on the deck. " They 're passengers ! " I cried. " We must find the captain." " No, no ! ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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