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"The Blue Lagoon: A Romance" by H.
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- Author
- H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1908
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WHERE THE SLUSH LAMP BURNS Mr Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the “Shan van vaught,” and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the fo’cs’le deck. “O the _Frinch_ are in the bay, Says the _Shan van vaught_.” He was dressed in dungaree trousers, a striped shirt, and a jacket baize—green in parts from the influence of sun and salt. A typical old shell-back, …
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