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"No," said Prime soberly; "it was—er—it looks as if it might have been an aeroplane"[Frontispiece]
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"Is it good?" she asked, when he had inhaled the first deep breath[52]
"Hold her!" he shouted. "We've got to make the shore, if it smashes us!"[108]
"Vraiment! she's one good gon," he commented . . . "W'ere you get 'um?"[172]
"None o' that, now! Ye'll be puttin' yer hands up ower yer heids—the baith o' ye—or it'll be the waur f'r ye!"[212]
"The account between us is too long to wait for daylight!"[228]