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r . Harrisbcrg, July 4. 1855.
.; Ma. Editor i As I perceive, your valua
ble journal is not in the employ of the Central
Railroad , Company permit me through its
columns to call the attention of the people of
Pennsylvania to the recent outrage on their
interest committed by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company.
Their great chain of impf ovementa, connec
ting ' the Delaware and the Ohio improve
ments whichcoetthe State over $15,000,000,
Which hare built np the cities of Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, which have immensely promo
ted the interests of the State, and have al
ways pcen regarded as the proudest monu
ment of the wisdom and enterprise of the
Commonwealth, has been abandoned given
p to delapidation and decay crowds of boats
aTe no longer seen on the canal, and the still
ness of the night, and our quiet slumbers, are
no longer disturbed by the discordant notes of
the boatman's horn. The'Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has triumphed ; all competition
between the State improvements and the
Railroad for the immense freights between the
East and West, is at an end ; and the Railroad
Company, by a short cut, has realized the
consumation of Its longing desires, o monop
oly of the carrying trade detween the East
end the West. ".;
To accomplish thin object, the company has
been laboring for several years, and without
any very punctilious regard to the means
used. The Company had done little more
than effect an organization, when it commen
ced praying the Legislature to repeal the fivo
mill tonnage tax. It was reduced to three
mills. But this generous reduction by the
State was not suflkient. The Company next,
though its subsidized press, and by its officers
and satellites, began to importune the Legis
lature to sell this chain of improvements.
There was nothing said against the Delaware,
the Susquehanna, the North and "West Branch
Divisions ; no proposition was brought for
ward in the Legislature to sell these, or any
of these Divisions. That was entirely unne
cessary. Whether they were productive of
revenue or not, honestly managed or not, was
a matter of not the Blighest consequence.
These divisions of the State improvements did
not come in competition with the Pennsylvan
ia Railroad, and the State might therefore,
with propriety, be premitted to retain them.
But a general hue aud cry were raised against
the Main Line ; the cry of corruption and bad
management, that they were unproductive,'
that they were and must ever be a burden on
the treasury and th people ; that if not sold
in a short time, they would be utterly worth
less, utterly destroyed by the Railroad, and
that then the State would not be able to Bell,
or even give them away ; the press in the in
terest of the Company from one end of the
State to the other, from the organ of the Com
pany. , "The North American," down to the
little eight by ten sheets in the country, with
the free tickets of the Company in the pockets
X)i their editors ; the officers and their outside
partners and dependents! from the President
down to the runners of the road, joined in the
cry and swelled the chorus.
Many of the members of the Legislature,'
with free lickett &c. in their pockets, were
xaeUy persuaded that utter ruin and bank
ruptcy would speedily overwhelm the State, if
this Main. Line was not immediately sold, and
certain provisions in the Company's charter
touching the three mill tax, &c, were not re
pealed, and, accordingly, the bill of 1854 for
the sale, &c., fixing the minimum at $10,000,
COO, was passed. ; But the Company, encour
aged by their success, and Delieving from the
then state of the money market, that no com
pany could be found to complete with it fox
the Line, resolved that it would not bid, and
published its resolution, with a report careful
Jy, drawn up depreciating the value of these
improvements, and thereby deterring others
also fromidding. It was wisely considered
that' if no sale should take place, by again
raising the hue and cry of corruption and bad
management, &c, a much more favorable bill
for the' 'Company, could be obtained. The
event showed the sagacity of the Company.
o sale took place ; and now a more favorable
bUl for the sale, and for a less sum' must bo
gained, notwithstanding the new Allegheny
fTfRoad, at a great cost to . the State,
m tt me time been nearly completed,
and an annual 'expense- of : about 0300,000
thereby saved to the Stfcte. To effect this ob
ject the more certainly, the track must; be
cleared of all obstructions The Board of Ca
nal .Commissioners and ' the forwarding com
panies. hftd heretofore been found antagonistic-'
bodies, and fithef troublesome obstacles to
the procuring of just such legislation on the
subject as was desired. ."And to those two
bodies, those, who were observing With some
alarm the movements of this Corporation,
looked for protection and defence against its
machinations. - But - with such a mammoth
Corporation, these small obstacles were not to
be endured, and the hopes of protection and
defence, from these quarters, were doomed to
bitter disappointment. - When the Legislature
met last winter by some strange! mesmeric
influence the Canal Commissioners and the
Forwarding Companies were suddenly conver
ted from enemies into friends, and they and
the officers of the Companyi and their depen
dants and stool-pigeons, were all found co-operating
like a band of brothers in accomplish
ing the sim e common object., A general hue
and cry of corruption and bad .management,
and of the worthlessness of this Main Line,
were again raised, the Canal Commissioners
leading in the chase, and the "North Ameri
can" and the smaller papers in the employ of
tKe Company - bringing up tho rear.. .The
Legislature was again assured that tho Main
Line had always been unproductive and a
burden on the treasury ; that it had bever been
of any value, and was growing worse and
worse every day ; that it was falling Into de
lapidation and decay, and would soon be worse
than worthless ; that unless sold without delay
to the Railroad Company, and at a very low
figure, in a short time, it could not be given
away. As if not sufficiently enlightened, by
all these disinterested friends of the ' public
improvements, and the State, touching the
public interests, , the Chief Engineer of the
Railroad, with as exuberance of patriotism,
and an excess of generosity and public spirit,
above all praise, published at his own txpense
of coarse, a.pamphlet of Seventy-six pages,
entitled. "The Main Line of tho Pennsylvan
ia State Improvements ; ' its History, Cost,
Revenue, Expenditures, ' and Present and
Future Prospective Valuej" laid a handsome
copy on the desk of each member of that body,
and scattered them broadcast, without money,
and without price, all over the State. The
name of this author and public benefactor, of
course from motives of delicacy, was carefully
consealed from a wondering and grateful pub
lic; and that his readers might be duly im
pressed with his pamphlet, and his disinteres
ted motives be above suspicion he informs
them in his " prefatory remarks" that "the
persual of these pages may possible convey the
impression that this publication has been made
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
the purpose of depreciating the value of the
property of the State, and securing a purchase
on more favorable terms. Such, however, is
not the fact, neither the President nor .any
member of the Board of Directors of this Com
pany has had any participation directly or in
directly, in the preparation of this pamphlet.
nor was the manuscript seen by any of them
previous to its publication. - -
As might have been expected from the dis
interested motives of the writer and the ob
jects in view these improvements according to
the pamphlet are sufficiently worthless, their
past history rough enough, and their future
prospects depressingly gloomy : .. "The Main
Line has no cheering future ; a darker history
awaits it than the past has furnished.'' . The
best thing that could be done for the State,
would be to fill up the canal ; indeed he would
seem to recommend a general filling up of all
the canals in the country ; the Columbia Road
should be sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and the -clause imposing the three
mill tonnage tax should be repealed; it would
increase the . revenue of the State, and greatly
promote the interests of the people generally.
- Notwithstanding the A. Pi R. R. was near
ly completed, and an unconditional appropri
ation of $277,730 had then been made to
finish the laying of the rails, the representa
tives of the people, overcome by such cogent
reasoning, and weighty considerations of pub-
lic.policy, passed another bill for the sale of
the 3Iain Line, fixing $7,500,000 as the min
imum j and proposing to release the Company
from the three mill tonnage ., tax, if it would
condesend to take these worthless: improve
ments off their hands at . $8,500,000. . The
tonnage tax last year amounted to $136,610,
the interest at fiveper cent, of more than Jfc2.
732,000, and if suffered to remain, in a few
years, it would yield 250.000. or 300.000.
the interest of five or six millions at five" per
cent. But the Legislature, as intnwWn
to the total repeal of this promising source of
Cuu0, wuaoutany consideration, at least to
the State, and without any benefit to the coal
and lumber men, unless they be officers, their
pariaers or aepenoents,. repealed the tw on
coat and lumber- i, f.;.... ,
Th" yonng aoijstcr, emboldenei Md in
fatuated by its sucsess; by the : facility with
which it had managed our Legislatures, and ;
by the forbearance of the people ; confident of !
its power to extort still better terms from some
wiser Legislative body, again resolved not to
bid for- these improvements,' and to adopt a
bolder line of policy and to. make them xif
fact. What its officers had represented them to
be in their pamphlets and subsidised press,
utterly ; worthless. And it proceeded, in
pursuance cf an arrangement with the for
warding companies, made it is believed last
winter, to buy them off this Maiii Line by
guaranteeing or giving $60,000 to ai Com
pany and $50,000 to the other, and have
them draw off and sell their boats and ' cars,'
leaving it : abandoned)rHdeserted, worthless
to Philadelphia, to Pittsburg, to all the inter
mediate parte of the State, and to the State
itself. For, I presume every body, knows;
that in consequence of the unavoidable tran
shipments at Johnstown, Hollidaysbarg and
Columbia, ho through carrying can be done
on this Main Line, but by means of through
forwarding lines, except the little that may
be done In the small section boats.
And though, more than five weeks ago,, the
Company had its agents travelling all along
the line, with the owners of the forwarding
lines valuing their stock) and though for more
than two weeks, almost every man, woman
and .child residing along the canals and Rail
roads between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
have known that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company had bought off the forwarding lines,
and that they had for that length of time re
fused to receive freights, and have for the last
two weeks been removing their boats and cars
from the Canals and Railroads, forming the
line, yet the great Commercial Journal of
Philadelphia the " North American and Uni
ted States Gazette," the organ and guardian
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, : is
entirely innocent of any knowledge of these
transactions ! And, in its leader of . the 20th
June says that " The fact charged is, that the
Directors of the Central Road have bought, or
are endeavoring to buy the interest of the
several transporting firms who have been
using the Main Line for the carriage of freight
between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.' For
two or three obvious reasons, it is sincerely to
be hoped that the measure has not so much
as been contemplated. In the first place, it is
highly desirable both as regards the welfare
of the Commonwealth and Its citizens, that
the improvement in question, should be kept
in active operation." And it effects to dlsan-
prove the measure and to administer some
gentle reproof to the Company.
But whilst its affection of ignorance of these
infamous movements of the Company are high
ly amusing, its terror and alarm at the prob
able consequences likely to ensue from the
audacity of the movement, are undisguised
and unaffected. And well may the organ
and the Company both quail before the storm
they have raised. And permit me to say,
that the affectation of ignorance, the gentle
reproof, and the attempted diversion by the
orzan. I am inclined to think, will not avail
to allay the spirits of the tempest they have
evoked.
Equally farcical is the effected ignorance of
the organ, as exhibited in its leader of the
28th June, respecting the resolution : of the
Company not to bid for the Slain Line. " When
that resolution was passed, I have not the
means of knowing but I knew ' more than
Jive weeks ago from the President of the Com
pany, through a reliable source, that such
resolution had then been unanimously passed,
and had not then been published, because, as
he alleged, the report of the Company, kindly
setting forth the reasons, as was done in 1854,
why the Company' should not purchase the
lane, and why, of course i other companies
and persons who might be foolish enough to
think of biding for these worthless improve
ments, should not do so either, was not pre
pared, j But that report, I presume will not
now figure in the columns of the organ. ; Hav
ing adopted a more effective way of rendering
these improvments worthless, and of deterring
others' from ' biding for them; and having
caught in the distance some of the first mut-
terings of the coming storm of popular indjg
nation, presume it will not be deemed ad
visable to aggravate ita fury by . any. further
experiments on the patience and forbearance
of the people. ; I would recall to the reeollec
tion of the " North American" and the Com
pany, the fate of another monster, once loca
ted in Chesnut street, which for not one half
the corruption and audacity , justly chargeable
to this young cub, was by General Jackson
and the people trampled in the dust.
In the same leader of the 28th, the organ
apparently much alarmed at an article which
appeared a day or two .hefore fa the New
York Courier and Enquirer, urging upon the
New York merchants and capitalists the val
ue of these improvementsregarded by the
Company and apparently by Philadelphia, as
of no importance,, and to purchase them, the
organ insisted, that " if any,' such resolution
had been p-ssed by the Company, '(and of the
passage cf which every body in Philadelphia
had W'Ate je; except the " N. American")
that it" should bo nj mediately rescined, and
that the Uompany should purchase tho Main
Line. la that article, and in a number , cf
eminent! absurd and puerile . leaders, pub
lished wi'J-in the last fottr. or five months, the
organ has labored with a great show of inde
pendence, and zeal for , the interests of the
people, to persuado them that it would be
dangerous to trust these improvements in the
hands of a rival Company, and that the only
Mfety fortL&TJeofia wod-fce in-giving to
the Company a monopoly of the immense
carrying trale between the East and the West,
and In conunitt'mg their interests, with a
generous conZdcnce, to the tender care of this
corporation, . In this enlightened age, the old
notion of competition of competing lines .of
improvement, or of competing companies of
carriers, having any tendency to lessen the cost
or increase the amount ' or facilities of trade
and business, is absurd, and should be ex
ploded. The P. R. R. Co. of course would
with both lines in its hands, carry more goods,
carry them cheaper, and furnish greater facil
ities to trade than two . companies could or
would do ; and would of course - reduce the
cost of transportation ! I But the ' North
American" forgot, or perhaps did "hot know
that heretofore, as soon the canal was closed
in the fall, this Company added about fifty
per cent, to its summer rates of freight, and
kept the rates up until the opening of the
canal in the spring. Though the great com
mercial journal of Philadelphia may not know
these things, the people do, and have not
such an abiding confidence in the tender
regard of the Company fof their interests as
that journal ; and they feel that perhaps some
competition in this bttsines should be encour
aged notwithstanding. And it Is surprising
what an effect the, terror, under which the
leader of the 29th was written, produced on
the organ. This leader gives some strong
indications of returning reason and common
sense, and is an interesting commentary on
its immediate predecessor. The organ itself
begins to suspect competition, may not bo
such a bad thing after all.' ' '
And can it be necessary to say to Philadel
phia and Pittsburg, and to the people all
along the line, how deeply they are interest
ed in keeping the Main Line out of the hands
of the Central Company? , Can any merchant
or business man any. where be found sostupid,
at this time of day, as not to know, that an
unrestricted monopoly of the immense and
increasing carrying trade between the east
and west, in the hands of the Central Com
pany, or of any company, would be a great
public and private evil, and which would not
be tolerated fcr any length of time? Would
not such a monopoly be ruinous to the trade
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and death to
all wav trade? If I were an enemy of the
Central Company, and desired to see it ruin'
ed, I could wish for it nothing which in my
opinion, would so certainly array an indignant
people against it and utterly destroy it, and
that very monopoly which it is so anxiously
seeking to obtain. But I am no enemy to
the Company. ' I Have received no favors and
suffered no injuries at its hands.. I regard
its road as one of the greatest achievements
of the day; and an; enduring and magnificent
monument to the wisdom and edergy of Phil
adelphia. Let no one charge her hereafter
with a want of publio spirit and enterprise
And I most anxiously desire to see her and
the whole country. " reap all the advantage
from this great improvement, which; it is so
well calculated to secure them. But I confess
I feel little admiration for its management,
and its managers. Nay more, contemplating
the haughty and contemptuous disregard : it
has shown from the beginning, for the private
rights and interests, of individuals and com
munities, and its grasping and monopolizing
spirit, I have begun to regard it " with terror
And alarm. -
. But to return to tho subject. It is well
known that if the Company do not buy the
Line: under the present bill, it will not be bo
much because the price fixed is too high, as
because cf tho provision requiring the pur
chasers to keep forever the Canals and Rail
roads open and in order, and to furnish the
nAeessarv motive Dower on the roads. This
is the objectionable feature, and which the
Company succeeded in keeping cut of the bill
whilst passing through the House, but which,
thanks to some' Senators, they were not able
to keep out of the bill when it came to the
Senate. 1 It is also well known that when that
provision, despite the exertions of the Com
pany, its alders and abettors, was inserted in
the Senate, they abandoned the , bill as no
longer worthy of theit consideration j and that
its chief officers then announced the determi'
nation of the company not to purchase, and
then it was, I presume, that the short cut was
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agreed upon. That provision out ot me dui
and I presume there wculd be little hesitation
about buying. The design of the Company
was to discontinue the Western Division, the
Portage Road, and the Eastern Division from
Hollidaysburg to Huntingdon, if the bill
could have been passed without the provision;
And this design Was not concealed) but open-
avowed. . Now let Philadelphia and Pitts
burg, and all the intermediate country, . look.
at this aspect of the subject, and say what
they think of it. Are two independent lines
between the East - and West too much for
them ? Is there not trad? enough for both
now? And will not that trade, with two
competing lines attracting it to them', be 50oh
more than both of them can possibly carry?
And when New York, ' with two Railroads
connecting her great metropolis with the
West, is spending millions to widen and deep
en her canal, will Philadelphia and Pittsburg,
with one continuous Railroad only, agree to
fill up their Canals, and this, too, for the
purpose of satiating the verocious maw of this
ambitious corporation ? . . . -.-
And is this Main Line so worthies as this
lying corporation represents it? If so, why
this anxiety to destroy it? No, sir, by no
means. . Examine its statistics and you will
find that its tonnage has been .increasing ev
ery successive year, and increasing, I believe,
more rapidly since the Central Road has been
built than before, showing the wonderful pow
er of competition to increase trade. Z And the
amount of its tonnage . this spring, up to the
date of the infamous outrage committed by
this insolent and audacious corporation,' is
greater than it ever was before for the same
period, notwithstanding this has been a . very
unfavorable season for freight.
And in reply to the allegation by the offi
cers of this Company that this line has been a
burden on the treasury and yielded no revenue
to the State, I would ask them how many
Railroads in the United States yield any divi
dends to the Stockholders, after honestly pay
ing all expenses and repairs. 1 Would sug
gest to thera, or rather to the honest Stock
holders of this Company, who are not engaged
in the outside speculations to examine the
books of this Company, and tell me hew much
of the current expenses of the road is charged
every year to the account of construction, for
the purpose of showing deceptive profits ; and
then tell me what would be the honest amount
of ita nett dividends ? and what must be the
amount of the nett profits of a Company that
pays from eighteen to twenty-four per cent.
for the loan of money, to pay six per cent.
dividends. In reference to the charges of
prodigality and corruption in the management
of the State Improvements, far be it from me
to undertake the hopeless task of refutation.
Though I am not one of the initiated, and
have never been behind the curtain to see any
considerable portion of the iniquities and
shortcomings of this young corporation, enough
of them have come to my knowledge to war
rant me in affirming that for the time it has
...
been in existence, it has been guilty of more
prodigality, corruption, and favoritism, than
the State officers have ever been for the 6ame
period.
- And to the honest Stockholders, I Would
further suggest that they enquire and ascer
tain how many officers and directors of the
Company have been engaged in the Altoona
speculation? How many in the Huntingdon
speculation ? now many in the Greenwich
speculation on the Delaware ? How many In
the coal and lumber speculation ? How ma
ny in the Allegheny Coal Company specula
tion? How many in the Westmoreland Coal
Company speculation ? How much coal they
have carried and contracted to carry, and at
what prices ? Whether the Company can af
ford to carry the coal of the Westmoreland
Company at the rates agreed upon? Whether
the officers have not refuaed to carry coal for
others at the-' same rates or at any rates?
Whether other and more valuable freight, at
higher rates have not been refused ? Whether
the repeal of the three mill tax on coal and
lumber has been of any benefit to any persona
except the officers, their partners and their
favorites? Whether the officers do not keep
a schedule of rates for the out3ide barbarians,
and make special contracts with their partners,
dependents and favorites, at much lower rates ?
And how much the officers of the Westmore
land Company would make on their contraof s
for coal this season, by the repeal of the three
mill tax? And whether in fine the interests
of the Company have not generally been made
subservient to the interests of the officers, their
partners, dependents, and favorites? And
whether their private fortunes have not been
much improved by the operation ? Other
equally pregnant suggestions might be made,
but these are deemed sufficient to warrant
some investigation and Inquiry.
And now I would ask the people of Penn
sylvania whether they hsve any inquiries and
Investigations to make into the conduct of this
Company ? Whether they ' are disposed to
pass over in silence ita many transgressions,
and especially its last audacious outrage ? Will
they continue to elect men to the Legislature,
the majority of whom ieill be, as the majority
have been heretofore, the corrupt tools of this
corrupt Corporation? If so, how long da
they suppose it Will be till the proud old Key
stone State shall have become thehamble and
submissive vasal of this domineering Corpo
ration ? Till she shall - have fallen to that
depth of degradation to which New jersey has
already sunk,' ti the vassal tf the Camden and
Aroboy Railroad Company ? And if this half
gfown " cub is bow so audacious aftd daring
what will it bo when it shall have reached ita
full growth, and especially when it shall have
destroyed all competition, and betiollie the
owner of the Main Line? All competition
and . checks destroyed, With the Immense ad
ditionalpower and patronage of the Main Line,
What Will Hot this then huge monster dare
and do? If these things take place in the
green tree,- what may we expect in the dry I
, : :A PENNSYLVANIA.
.. feidnapping a White GirL
On Friday last, at an early hour in the
morning, a white girl, 14 years of age, the
daughter of . Mr. Samttel GoodshaU, residing
Within three miles of Downington, Chester
county. Was carried ' away by two men in a
close carriage, a distance of twelve miles from
home, toward the , Maryland line. . The girl
had been with a neighbor for the past two of
three weeks, taking care of a sick chUd. and
on the morning of Friday, while going along
the road to drive a cow from the pasture field
she Was accosted by two strange men, very
genteely dressed, who were standing near a
carriage, attached to which were two horses. ;
They asked her name, and Where she livad.
to which inquiries she gave answers without
hesitation, supposing that they were friends
or acquaintances of a gentleman residing ia
the neighborhood . Without any further con
versation one of them opened a tin box, and
took therefrom what appeared to bo a pitch
plaster, Which ho Instantly clapped over he t
mouth, when both of them dragged her into
the carriage and drove off.
They passed, by an iadifoct route from th
place, through Coatsville, some three miles
beyond the latter place, and about twelve
miles from her home. Here they let her out
upon the road, in a secluded and wooden por
tion of the country, threatening to kiU her if
she made any alarm, when they drove away
as fast as they could.
The poor girl, faint and sick from mental
excitement and terror, scarcely knew wheae
she was or what to do, when she was met by
two colored persons, who assisted her in taking
the plaster from her mouth, advised her as to
her course homeward. The girl succeeded
in getting to her home a little before Bunset,
having been all day absent. She states that
the fellows offered her no insult or personal
violence, except that occasionally when her
sobs and efforts to cry prevailed, they threat
ened to knock her brains out with the whip.
The solution to this outrage is that the men
mistook her for a mulatto, and designed tak
ing her into the State of Maryland. Ascer
taining, however, while on the route, that
they had made prisoner of a sun-burnt white
girl, they concluded to make the best of an
error by giving her leave to find her way
home, and they to get out of Chester county
as quickly as possible. PAiZaJipAta Ledger t
July 9.
; , Barnnm'i Last.
. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledjefg
writing from New York, gives the following aa
Barnum'a last. Ho says :
"An eminent publishing Louse in Paris Is en
gagd in issuing a series of the most distinguished
female beauties in the world, which when comple
ted, is to include ten of the handsomebt ladies in
the Ucitod States, and these Barnum has under
taken to engage.
In order to stimulate competition, ha offer
$5000, in premiums, ranging from SlOOOcfcnrn
to $150, to bo distributed, according to the dmer
ent degroes of beauty. Ladies accordingly are re
quested to send in their daguerreotypes to the
Museum. Nona will be received later than tha
15th of October. i
. The judge of the "best looking are to be Mthm
people at large. " Each visitor u to imrrk on a
lip of paper the particular number, correspond
ing with that of his choice, ami dVpccit it in a
ballot box at the door. The result is to be a
nouneed on tbe l&th of September.
Single and married women alike may compete,
but none below " sweet sixteen " are to enter the
lists. No limit to ancinet inJctihood Is epecuV
ed. When the 6how in public is over, artiaU are
to be employed to paint full r.izd portraits of the
premium beauties.
Great, great ts humbug, and Farnura la ita
profit.
3T A down-east skipper, with a boy, was
trying to manage s small sloop, when the mas
ter of a Liverpool packet, who had been dodgj.
ing out of their way, mcensed at their awk
wardness, cried out T ' t " '
What sloop is &ti1" '
"The Sally, from Malner rVppooded tho
Yankee.?1 ' .
Who ccrmmstods her T
"Well, replied tho tkipper, I undertake,
to, but I sweow, she's te much for me V' .
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