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Captain Buckingham paused to fill his pipe again, and Stevey Toddsaid:

"'Intwelvet to deceive and deception pursuant,' was my words, and Inever give in," and Uncle Abimelech piped up to a crazy tune:

"You can arguy here and arguy there, But them that dangles in the air They surely was mistook somewhere, They ain't got good foundations."

"Aye," said Captain Buckingham thoughtfully. "It sometimes was so. I heardSadler tune that to his banjo the evening we got to Colon. Abe's gotthat kind of a memory, which is loose but gluey. It sometimes was so. Sadlermeant very ancient man Clyde."