Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune. Stables Gordon

in our heroes' situation. However, the report, which they always contradicted, did them no harm, and they were invited to more houses than one, being asked, moreover, to come in their sailor's clothes.

      The boys obeyed. In fact they had none other, but they had a kind of best suit, and very well the broad blue collar and black sailor's-knotted handkerchief became their handsome young faces.

      I don't think I am far wrong in saying that some of the Australian ladies fell in love with them.

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      The letter "z" not pronounced in Scotch.

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      Dike (Scottice), a low fence of stone or turf.

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      The Scymnus borealis

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The letter "z" not pronounced in Scotch.

2

Dike (Scottice), a low fence of stone or turf.

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The Scymnus borealis, or Greenland shark, is often eighteen to twenty feet in length.