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1 "Get the cards, Hump," Wolf Larsen ordered, as they took seats at the table.
2 Hump, I have studied some grammar in my time, and I think your tenses are tangled.
3 Hump," he said to me, elaborately polite, "kindly take Mr. Mugridge's arm and help him up on deck.
4 D'ye know, Hump," he said, with a slow seriousness which had in it an indefinable strain of sadness, "that this is the first time I have heard the word 'ethics' in the mouth of a man.'
5 Two things I had acquired by my accident: an injured knee-cap that went undressed and from which I suffered for weary months, and the name of "Hump," which Wolf Larsen had called me from the poop.
6 It sounded like the gurgling of a brook over mossy stones in some quiet dell, and the crooning song of it lured me away and out of myself till I was no longer Hump the cabin-boy, nor Van Weyden, the man who had dreamed away thirty-five years among books.
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