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MOORE.
"Sampson, Mr. Sampson! just step this way, and bring your eye to bear a
little to the nothe-nothe-east, and tell me what you make."
"Make, boy, make!" exclaimed Sampson, thrusting a huge piece of pigtail
into his already overcharged, capacious mouth, "I suppose you would have
me believe that you'd made the light of some sweet-heart's eyes,
outshining even old Sankoty itself."
"Three years ago, do you remember it, Sampson, when I was a mere
stripling, you took me aside, and pointed out a dim light, away down to
the water's edge, and told me I would have seen different days before I
made it again? Do you think I can ever forget it? I could tell its light
from among a thousand! As I caught its last rays then, it seemed to me
the pensive, forgiving smile of my mother, for, as you know, I came away
from home without my mother's consent; but I long ago received her
forgiveness, and everything will be forgotten in the happiness which we
shall enjoy at meeting once more. And my father, he is at home by this
time! How surprised they will all be to see me grown almost to be a man!
I hope the Sea-flower is the same little fairy still.
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