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But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster -- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
 

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Are we going to include the chapters on the whaling industry? I know my friend read a version that omitted those.
 

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But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.
 

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Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.
 
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