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US AND THE BOTTLEMAN
man shouted up, "Hey! You drop something?" but we told him it was just an old bottle we did n't want, and not to mind. We watched it go bob-bobbing along beside an old barrel-head that was floating by, and we wondered how far it would go, and if it would leak and sink. The tide was exactly right to carry it outside, if all went well.
"Perhaps," said Greg, when we were halfway up Luke Street, going home, and had almost forgotten the bottle, "perhaps it will land on the Sea Monster, and the pirates will find it."
"Glory!" said Jerry, "perhaps it will."
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