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e tried to scream, the gag muffled his voice; if he tried to escape the Arab, the iron collar choked him. “I’m told some of your seamen were quite heroic. The poster showed woodblock caricatures of the odious pair and ended with this admonition: Every citizen is warned to be on watch for these monsters, these body-snatchers. “There they are,” he muttered nervously, “fifteen guns they said could never be captured, and Father and I brought ’em all in.
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