Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


The scene on the poop duplicated the previous one, save that the men
were more excited, more frightened. They were babbling and
chattering all together.


"Shut up!" Mr. Pike was snarling when I came upon them. "One at a
time, and answer the captain's question."


"It ain't no barrel this time, sir," Tom Spink said. "It's alive.
An' if it ain't the devil it's the ghost of a drownded man. I see 'm
plain an' clear. He's a man, or was a man once--"

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