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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ding hay from barges alongside. We talk to the men, but theyspeak a patois which, as far as language is concerned, is neitherfish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring. We have great difficulty inmaking each other mutually understood, but in spite of this wepart mutually good friends. Amongst the small houses lining the quay is the inn, but we can-not say as much for it as we did for the inn at St. Brelades Bay.Nor is the landlady as civil and attentive as our host of the former.But we are shown into an upper room, which is a new and excellentdining-room, entirely built of pitch pine, or some equally white andcheerful wood; and here we are served with delicious lobsters, and abaron of beef which would tempt the most unwary appetite. Far above the little village, Mont Orgeuil rears its dignified head.The sight of it has struck terror to many a heart in days gone by;but those days are over. It has been left to peace and repose formany an age; its frowns have softened; its rugged sides have
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