The Wreck of the Red Bird; a Story of the Carolina Coast
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t^j " Well,' said Jack, " all that is news to me." " I suppose it is. Most people think a whale is a fish, too, but for all that it is nothing of the kind. What are you doing, Charley ? " " Tossing up heads or tails for it," answered Charley, who had left the tent and gone to the large fire. " Tossing up for what ? " " To determine the method and manner of my death," answered Charley, with profound gravity, " If I stay in the hut I shall die of suffocation in the smoke, and if I stay out here t...he sand flies will kill me. I can't quite make up my mind which death I prefer, so I 'm tossing up for it." "Good! there 's a breeze," said Ned; "if it rises it '11 relieve you of the necessity of choos- ing." "How? By blowing the smoke away, and so giving the sand flies a fair field ? " " No ; by blowing the sandflies away ; they can't, stand much of a breeze. It is coming up, too, and we shall get some sleep after all." The breeze did indeed rise after a time, but the dawn was almost upon them before the boys really 58 THE WRECK OF THE RED BIRD.
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