Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 817
se for the cook to get mad i he could nevercatch that monkey. There was one thing that always excited Jackoscuriosity, and that was our changing the watereveiy day in the eels barrel. There were eightwater-barrels standing there in a row, and whythree men should go every day, and empty thewater out… … THE HEALTH-OFFICER INVESTIGATES THE MYSTERIOUS BARRE curiosity as he could stick. But he never could seeanything in the barrel. One day, I thought there was gomg to be badweather, and, as I was afraid it might be too coldfor the eel on deck, I had his barrel moved to thestore-room, where it would…
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