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PRESSION OF A SEASICK PASSEN
correspondence
Course .
room, for he knew that he had no time new tenant, he found the room vacant,
to tarry, though his cunning precaution except for the lone chair and desk and
in advertising only in remote places an unsealed letter, which his lurking
gave him a temporary sense of security.
suspicions seized upon at once.
It was not such a long way to Canada,
"To Those Whom It May Concern,"
after all.
it said inclusively, "Professor Slimkins
When the wary agent called the next
wishes to express his pleasure and
day to investigate the stillness of the
thanks for the great interest manifested
in his new guaranteed course in
the art of whistling, and for the
many first payments of five dol-
lars received. I have the money.
Now you whistle. If you do not
do some fancy whistling now,
you may as well give up trying."
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This file contains poems, articles, and letters relating to polar explorers Robert Peary, Ernest Shackleton, and Frederick Cook, and their expeditions.
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