"Had an ugly dream last
night. That's what troubles me. Anything happens to me, Mr. Toodleburg,
you're the man I looks to as a friend to my little sweetheart and them
two angels at home."
Tite assured him that he would do as he desired, and at the same time
tried to dispel from his mind the gloomy forebodings impressed on it by
the dream.
"Never had an ugly dream of that kind that it did'nt foretell somethin'
bad, Mr. Toodleburg," he replied to a remark made by Tite, that it was
not wise to give one's self uneasiness concerning dreams. "There's
sharks a' land as well as sharks a' sea. Keep that in your mind, my
hearty. And I dreamed that my time had come, and my poor little
sweetheart at home was surrounded by sharks ready to devour her. Made my
blood boil, it did. Waked up feelin' for a harpoon to throw among 'em.
My ghost'll haunt the man that wrongs my little sweetheart.
"That's not all, my hearty. Somebody's brought bad luck aboard--that's
certain. A voyage begun in bad luck, as this ere voyage has been, never
ends in good luck.
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