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to feel kind of lonely, but I'm through and he can have the table to himself."
"You said you were a shipwrecked sailor, I believe?" was the inquiring remark of Miss Lizzie, as the two sisters stood in the door, beaming kindly on the tramp, who began to play havoc with the eatables before him.
"Yes, mum; we was shipwrecked on the Jarsey coast; I was second mate and all was drowned but me. I hung to the rigging for three days and nights in the awfullest snow storm you ever heard of."
"Mercy goodness," gasped Annie; "when was that?"
"Last week," was the response, as the tramp wrenched the leg of a chicken apart with hands and teeth.
"Do they have snow storms down there in summer time?" asked Fred, as he moved away from the table.
The tramp, with his mouth full of meat, and with his two hands grasping the chicken-bone between his teeth, stopped work and glared at the impudent youngster, as if he would look him through and through for daring to ask the question.
"Young man," said he, as he solemnly resumed operations, "of course, they have snow storms down there in summer time; I'm ashamed of your ignorance; you're rather small to put in when grown-up folks are talking, and I'd advise you to listen arter this."
Fred concluded he would do so, using his eyes meanwhile.
"Yes, mum," continued the tramp; "I was in the rigging for three days and nights, and then was washed off by the breakers and carried ashore, where I was robbed of all my clothing, money and jewels."
"Deary, deary me!" exclaimed the sisters in concert. "How dreadful."
"You are right, ladies, and I've been tramping ever since."
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