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"It is very bleasant dot you like dem," said Handel, the German, greatly
pleased. "Und you, Herr Tracy, you haf peen bleased mit dem too,
alretty?"
"
I can honestly say I have never seen anything just like them before."
"Schon!" cried the German, delighted. "You hear, Gaptain? Here is a
chentleman, yes, vot abbreviate unser aart."
The captain was charmed, and said:
"
Well, sir, we're thankful for a compliment yet, though they're not as
scarce now as they used to be before we made a reputation."
"
Getting the reputation is the up-hill time in most things, captain."
It's so. It ain't enough to know how to reef a gasket, you got to make
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the mate know you know it. That's reputation. The good word, said at
the right time, that's the word that makes us; and evil be to him that
evil thinks, as Isaiah says."
"
It's very relevant, and hits the point exactly," said Tracy.
Where did you study art, Captain?"
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