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uh

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so

so

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so

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you're late number three

sorry

sorry he's not good enough

where's number five i think his dad's on

to him on to him or not his

responsibility is to us

ready

all right then over here

get round that end

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i thought it was locked up with the

other medical books it was

the father keeps the key in a little

secret drawer in his desk

there are keys to all sorts of things in

that drawer

oh

it doesn't look as if they're enjoying

it much oh hold on hold on

hey

you bloody twits

is that all you can do for what to

expect come on let's see

i expect a little intellect

i'm ashamed of you

all of you

i hope your boyish curiosity about such

trivia is satisfied

i can see there's a long way to go

before you're ready

any of

you idiots

bloody idiots

jonathan

you stay right there young man

mrs osborne

he's been out again

oh jono jono jono

twice in the last week

where do you go just to the beach mother

with whom

who do you meet there

no one

you're lying no i'm honest

go to your room this instant

quick march

i have lost all patience with you

jonathan

give me the key

this door will be locked tonight and

every night for a month

i will not have this lying

do you hear me i won't have it

good night elizabeth

good night mrs aspen

the chief is right

the behavior of adults is awful at times

subjected to cruel questioning

resisted

the chief's identity must remain secret

at all costs

have been locked in my room

the chief brought a book tonight

it had

it was

good morning

good morning jonathan

here's your porridge

there's rolls in the oven

good morning jonah

there's some chicken in the fridge we'll

be away most of the day the boys are

going over to blackpool sands i thought

jono

you will spend today inside this house

doing your homework and putting your

room in order

will be tied you if you step one foot

outside the door

do you understand me

may i have my kiss

ah

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so

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thank you

i wonder if i am being too hard

if you'll excuse me mrs osborne i

sometimes think you're not being hard

enough on the lad

it's the mind of his own that one he'll

have to hold tight rain

tight rain

for his own good

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ah

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good morning richard good morning

good morning mary good morning mrs

osborne

who forgot the alarm sorry my fault

bad night was it oh dear

does it show that much

the vicissitudes of puberty

yours

jonathan's in mine

so this is the lot

yes

this looks interesting

i like that very much have a look at the

regency

rosewood

and all the brass inlays intact

how much did we have to pay for this

lot 278.

how clever richard aren't you astute

would be more accurate

well now

we'll just have to see how outrageous we

can be with the london buyers

i must say jono i have never seen your

room in such good order

homework easy

what else did you do today

got into my book on flag signals pick a

color red

right

a red bird g means i'm taking in or

discharging explosives

red and white quartered you're standing

into danger red yellow man overboard

like you're white

oh uh black

or black too you have chocolate

just like your father did

do you still miss him

yes

very much

you

i dream about him sometimes good dreams

about her

good

we're in the dinghy fishing walking

along the beach

whose girl is it

mine

jonathan have you got nothing to tell me

about last night

nothing at all

it

would be telling on whom jono

i'm sorry mother

please

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do

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do

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amoeba proteus

belonging to the sub-kingdom protozoa

it feeds by phacocytosis

ingesting minute plants such as desmits

or small organic fragments

it multiplies by the simplest form

of a sexual reproduction called fission

when conditions are good

amoeba

enlarges rapidly

ceases activity

and forms itself into a round shape

the process is as follows

the pseudopodia come together drawing

food down into a food vacuole

formed by the enclosure of environmental

water

once trapped and enclosed digestion of

food begins

amoeba live and move

with the tips of several pseudopodia

in contact with the substrate

who did it

answer me

stop it

i expect you to remember that next time

number five i tried to get out so i got

caught i'm not interested in your

excuses we'll never get this off

punishment completed we meet friday

after school at my house

i advise you to be there number five

i advise all of you

the chief says we must have strong hard

hearts

he's right

i sometimes think of my heart

as an anchor of stainless steel

that sinks into the mud of the estuary

into the broken glass and tins and

bottle caps

pure shining

never rusting

last night

mother stood for the longest moment

looking out to sea

then something happened

i can't explain

it was

strange

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so

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so

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my

so

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so

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what about mr wickstead

gone for the day and fathers at his

surgery

don't worry we'll be alone

number two

right then

topics for discussion

suggestions

loyalty amongst friends

how about

headmasters how about his arse

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idiots

what about the power of the sea my god

number three you are the romantic aren't

you

the pure and perfect order of the world

comments

didn't think so

very well

the world

is like amoeba proteus eating its victim

now

do you think that the amoeba worries

that it's a victim might not like being

eaten

ridiculous

that would mean it has a sense of right

and wrong

a sense of what adults call

morality

i'm telling you there's no such thing

morality is nothing more than a set of

rules adults have invented to protect

themselves

a set of rules for the weak

you see

if you're strong

really strong

you don't need protection

you're not afraid of a world where the

only reality is life

feeding life

weak life

feeding strong life

like that's amoeba

it's

pure

and perfect

it acts the way it does because of what

it is

we have to be like that

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and there's only one way to do it

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break the rules

one by one

wow

oh

case in point

you might not believe it

but poor old cedric here used to hunt

for his food in the woods

but now he's in the house almost

continually

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he no longer hunts

he's lost his purity

a sense of the order of things

betrayed them for a source of warm milk

and a rub behind the ear

what you see here

is a fat

soft cat

posing as life

do you understand

my

god

my god you're thick

bloody cretins the lot of you

you don't have any idea of what i'm

talking about

do you

do you

get out

go on get out

you'll never understand me

any of you

stupid stupid stupid

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she's

be right back

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when did she come in

came in this morning when you were at

school

oh mama i love you

thank you

i love you too

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captain's busy mr cam will take care of

you

yes

i'm ann osborne and this is my son

jonathan i have a note from mr chapman

the hobo most

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that is kind of slippery

exhaust piston

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okay

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bmw 750s

what happened

we cracked the cylinder liner last night

about 10 miles out

where were you going

plymouth we were lucky to get in here

that way

boy he knows his stuff doesn't he

does he want to be a deep water sailor

well it's a miserable life

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we've coming up starboard fast

hard lift mister

hard left

that's it

half a head

nah oh stop

did i do all right

great

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thank you very much mr cameron

it was wonderful don't mention it

thank you it's very good

goodbye

mr cameron

i know

this was an imposition

and i'd like

well i'd like to show my gratitude by

inviting you to dinner tonight you're

free

it is mrs osborne isn't it

i am a widow mr cameron

i've got watch six to eight

five past eight on the key

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and she had marconi type radar and vhf

on the bridge and smoke detectors and

the depth finder and and the sonar beep

beep beep the autopilot

and the better grade myogram

to measure atmospheric pressure and mr

cameron he's splendid isn't he splendid

the bell that's her name isn't she super

she's soap

hide my way to my sisters i see you

monday morning all right

give america bye mrs palmer oh bye

and you behave yourself i will

did you see the scar above his eye

betty got it knife fighting

i bet anything fantastic fantastic

mother

thank you for today

thank you very much

hey

you're welcome

you're welcome very much

your bill sir

i hope you enjoyed your meal you did

thank you very much

he was such a patient

it happened quite suddenly

two days

some kind of occlusion

whenever he gained consciousness

he'd smile and apologize for being here

when he felt it coming on

he just said goodbye

simply

so he was taking the next train to

london

anyway

i took over the shop

life here can be a bit claustrophobic at

times but there's always the countryside

and

the sea

strange

i haven't spoken of any of these things

to anybody since david died

that was over three and a half years ago

there's a signal sent between the

vessels passing on the high seas

what ship

we're bound

jonathan's convinced that you got that

scar in a knife

what's your name

jim

and i ran into a hatch after a three-day

drunk in panama

we had a little place just outside of

topeka kansas

know where that is

just about 2 000 miles from the nearest

ocean

what made you go to sea then

just that i guess

long nights on the farm reading jack

london

conrad

people doing things i'd never done

a place i'd never seen

the sea to me was the unknown

like deep space

if you work the land you accept its

limit

boundary

you're buried where you're born

anyway

one day i knew that

i knew it was time to leave

it was good for a while

and then

it's crazy

you get the land that never changes and

the sea is never the same

and after you sail a while you come to

feel like you don't belong in either

place

i've had 16 years of it

yet you stay

why

you get caught by it

i would

by the idea of it i guess

ah

dreams of glory something like that

is there something up

did i say something fun it's my shark

my dream of glory if you want to call it

that i don't understand

i saw it off the azores

on a midnight watch three years ago

a gray shark

coming at the ship

i'm way out on the horizon

the fin was shining

i thought it was a moonlight and then as

it got closer i could see the whole

shark was glowing

just kept getting closer

i'm dead on

and then what happened nothing

i guess it's still out there

will you stay with me tonight

you knew i'd ask didn't you

when

when you asked me for supper

i knew when i

i saw you coming out of the cabin

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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so

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you're often

back at 6.

bye bye

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and he looked fantastic

his muscles

scars all over his body and then he took

her to bed just like the picture in your

book

he's wonderful

i have a feeling he's going to do

something

something great like what

all he'll do is get into your mom's

knickers it doesn't matter

he's part of the pure and perfect order

of things

the sea rot

nothing more than another broken down

adult you don't understand

is that right

since when is it your place to tell me

what i understand and what i don't i

just meant that you're ridiculous

there's no such thing as a hero

adults just poses these things you're a

child number three a soppy ignorant

child i am not

prove it any time

the rest of you

want to prove it too i'm game

yes

sure

all right

we'll see

we'll just see

come on he's over here

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get this instead

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stop it damn you what the hell do you

think you're doing

make a line across there

stay together

get that cat now

you won't get past us

yes

come on

come

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gloves

i got him it was me that got him oh shut

up

milk

all of it

hold him

it won't take long

he's out

over here

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hold his legs

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i told you it sometimes becomes

necessary to take things apart

like rules and other things

to find truth

to find the center of reality

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watch closely now

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uh

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the external abdominal muscles

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wonderful isn't it

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we're almost there

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serratus and the intercostals

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the pericardium

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you've seen life

posing as a cat

now now i'll show you

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there

this is the core

the center of life that makes the pose

possible

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beautiful

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isn't it beautiful

fantastic

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hey jonathan

this is mr cameron

second officer of the bell

jim

maybe i can explain jonathan's

reluctance in introducing us

jim

we five have a sort of a secret club

we don't use names we refer to each

other by number to maintain security

i'm sure you understand

gotcha

well

we must be off

pleasure to have met you

jim

anchors away mates gotcha

the boy who spoke to you

you won't tell mother i was with him

will you

why she doesn't like him much

says he's too precocious for his own

good

she might be right

he's just got a first-rate mind

sometimes it's hard for adults to

understand that in children you won't

tell will you

when do you leave

tomorrow morning as soon as we get the

tugs

doing anything now

let's go around the point i got

something i want to show you

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is it hard to learn all those

instruments no it just takes a little

time

you know men were at sea about a

thousand years before the magnetic

compass

sailor could read the clouds and the

winds

the stars

you could tell a lot just by looking at

the moon in a rainbow

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hmm

you leave in the morning

i bet sailors get bored with ladies

saying that all the time

you say that to all the sailors i've

never had a sailor

i've never had a lady

isolated

i've been left alone with mrs palmer

while they've gone off to some hotel

blunder

a stupid blunder

he's tampering with the perfection

it's wrong

dangerous

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huh

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if you feel like it you can write me at

those address buddy

jim

bye jim

hang in here skipper

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so

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so

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the sea was running like huge mountains

and we had to hold the engines at high

revs to keep the ship into the wind and

it goes on like that the storm nearly

wrecked the bell what happened then

he survived else number three's precious

hero wouldn't have been able to write

these letters

this profuse volume of literature you

and your mother have been getting well

it seems a little odd from a seafaring

man doesn't it what do you mean sounds

to me as if he's planning to come back

that's a lie

he's never once mentioned coming back of

course

i'm sure he's much cleverer than that

take that back

forget yourself number three take it

back i said

the hell i will

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who's responsible

who struck the first blow

i did

i'm sure you're willing to accept the

consequences you learn outside

move along

be quick about it

cool

uruguay

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namibia

where is nambia

just below angola ah

just below angler

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it is

is it

yes mother

it's the bell

um

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you smell good

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how's jonathan

jonathan's in bed with a cold

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elizabeth

this is cameron

jim

this is mrs palmer

hello

how do you do

um mr cameron will be staying with us

for a few days oh i'll make up the guest

room

that won't be necessary

shall i make some tea

not for me jim

no thanks now

will you beating at home

yes

well then i i'd better phone the

butchers

excuse me

why don't you go upstairs and see

jonathan

yes

hi skipper

used for you from piranha

thank you

how you feeling

i had a temperature yesterday you ought

to drink a lot of orange juice

vitamin c

it works

hey what's this

okay this is pretty good

just about got it perfect

la crosse north pacific

right to yokohama

what's that it's an iguana

the indians wear them on their heads

during their ceremonies you ought to see

them jonathan they got jaguar's teeth

around her when will you be sailing

again mr cameron

jonathan

i don't really know yet

i gotta unload

pick up some navigational gear i'll have

a terrible headache mother well go

downstairs and ask mrs palmer to give

you some aspirin and then have a little

sleep

um

i have to go

what

i have to sign some drafts

in the shop before the bank

i have to honestly

but i'll i'll be through by four

there's a tea shop ferguson's

yes it's opposite the challengers

i'll meet you there at four o'clock

four o'clock

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great place for a funeral

i'm showing you all

them what the hell they matter

that's the whole point

they don't anymore

hey

i want you let's get out of here indulge

me

just for a few moments now

either we leave here right now

oh what

okay

don't jump around now

just act natural

please

for god's sake

you want to stay here we'll stay

please

it's too late

now you're gonna attract attention

just relax

i can't

please

out there i kept thinking about how

silky you feel

the sounds you make

the smell of you more cakes my dear

no thanks

we're fine

just fine

easy now

that's it

you're getting it

good girl

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so

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so

did you see your shot this time

i just kept thinking about you

and how far away you were

i could see myself

all that time and see

loving something that doesn't love you

back

just going around around year after year

until you

all of a sudden i was in a place i've

never been before

didn't have any choice

see i've been pushing at that door

it opens in

the feelings

feeling things right that i've never

felt

i didn't know you could feel

and you did that

and i need you

in my life

because i need that place

marry me

when you want to marry me

are you sure

oh

we got time

i'll tell you no matter how long you've

been at sea

you'll never get used to the big storms

the absolute terror

at the savagery of all that power

and the beauty of it

did you know it's over

but this one was like nothing i'd ever

seen

in the beginning there was nothing you

could see

but the barometer kept

dropping like somebody pulled a cork out

of the bottom

we started taking cross swells

and the ship was getting water on her

decks so we

put her into the swells trying to keep

away

the seas got heavier

there's tons of water coming down on her

pounding her dicks tearing at the hedges

we lost the boat

done another one

the rails are twisted

and uh

bridge ladder's gone

she'd go down into the gully of a wave

like

she was going over the edge of the world

i had to go up on deck and check some

hatches and i got trapped hanging on to

a rainbow for my life i thought this

time

the old girls had it

no way she can make it through doesn't

but of course she did

because god protects the fools and the

sailors

it's wrong of him to come back

he's tampering with the perfection

can't he see that

what's he doing here

one indian story one storm like a

peddler with a pack of wares

it's criminal

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against second officer jim cameron

coming back

answering he wasn't sure when asked when

he would be sailing again

causing me the humiliation of having to

face the chief now

sententia's driven

just pushed a button and upcoming one of

those things

fathers are expected to say

my father still won't bother you there

rifle

mine beat me yesterday

beat you

he slaps me around the base

why don't you do something about it i'm

not big enough or strong enough you

don't have to be strong just clever

in any case

there are worse things than being beaten

lots worse

you're lucky number three

your father's dying let you off

oh i see the bell has returned to us has

your great hero done anything super on

his last trip you know he has

that fantastic hurricane of south

america

well

well he almost died he had to fight to

stay alive and you think that's

exceptional

the rats on that ship do as much

i am sick to death of your defense of

this man his back isn't he all tucked in

and cushy in your mother's bed

and you had the goal to question my

judgment about him

your behavior is unforgivable

i'm demoting you

five

is four

four

is three

and you

slug

are number five

and will remain number five

for as long as i say

ah

wow

okay

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hey

come on

come on

hey only half

he can handle it

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jono

um

i want you to listen very carefully

what i'm going to say is

what is quite important

jim and i are going to be married

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i know you've often thought how good it

would be to have somebody

to be a real family again

please try to understand what i'm saying

jim

is the first man i've ever

well

i love him very much jono and i hope one

day you will too

well

i suppose that's all there is to say

really

except we've talked it over and we've

decided

to get married at the end of the month

aren't you going to say anything

you go back to see afterwards jim

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no

i hope you'll be very happy mother

you too jim

i'll drink today

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let's try and be happy now jono

we'll make a fresh start

it is possible you know

to be happy i mean

what will jim do now

i don't know

we've talked about it a great deal

he's interested in so many things but

it's finding the right thing

anyway there's plenty of time to think

about that

and i don't know darling

right

love you

it was all a joke

just a game

to tease you in my die

how could we possibly get married

the world would

crack up

gym on land

impossible

he must go back to the sea

that's where he belongs

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it was only a game my darling

only game

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it's ruined

he's destroyed it oh

the perfect order is gone

how could he

i don't understand

continuing the charges against second

officer jim cameron of the

against jim cameron

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what a day

i'm tired

what's that

where is that coming from

what are you doing

what the hell do you think you're doing

you'll be watching

me

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what the hell is going on

he has been spying on

answer me when i speak to you

oh my god

i'll make you answer

take it easy hold on a minute

she's right jonathan you've been

watching us

from the beginning

and before that even before jim came

oh

daddy

wait a minute

calm down with you just a second

jonathan you know what you do is wrong

wrong

hey

it was wrong

he knows it and we know it there's not a

hell of a lot more to say about it

i think you owe your mother an apology

son

jonathan where are you

what is

going on in there

i don't know you

i don't know you at all

say something

come on that doesn't solve anything

how about that apology boy

sorry no

she didn't hear that

i'm sorry mother

now you close those doors

okay it's a start

tomorrow i'll fix that hole

right now let's just break clean

and try and start over again in the

morning

what do you say

the chief is right there are worse

things than being beaten

i shall never doubt him again

never

terrible

terrible

awful

well

there it is

this adults never meant much to the

group as a whole

but for number five he was a person of

considerable importance

for a short while

he seemed to have shown him a glimpse of

pure and perfect order of life

but now

well

there's no question

he's betrayed number five completely

and himself as well

i know what you're feeling

how painful it must be

the portrayal of adults always is

i have to save him

change him back

i have to

how

well

it's obvious isn't it

we have to make sure

this sailor remains true to himself

to his call

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when does this ship sail tomorrow

afternoon

around two

perfect

jim i was telling my mates at school

about your last trip in the storm

well it's not the same as when you tell

it

they've asked to hear it from you

would you

sure

when

tomorrow after school

tomorrow's a bad day

your mother's got a load of stuff

planned

the bell's sailing

i'd like to see her leave you can

there's a place just above the old

castle where we can all watch her leave

please

okay and you mustn't tell mother it's

sort of a secret just between mates

understand

gotcha

and would you wear uniform

would you

sure

meet you at the key just after school

it's a

deal what's this line

it's a tangent

between the observer station to the

heavenly body

jesus is a kid sharp

i think everything's gonna be all right

now

everything's gonna be just fine

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so

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hmm

this is it

terrific

you can really see her from here can't

we number two

yes

so you're the second officer huh

i

then you'll need this

looks good

that's the site in it

adios lady

tell us about the storm mr cameron yes

yes

okay okay gather round

hey that's great

you guys know what they mean

yeah

the blue peter means i'm about to sail

that's for the bell

and the red one means you are standing

into danger

that's for the story yes the story the

story okay settle down

well this was a storm we hit off the

coast of south america

jonathan's heard all this before it

doesn't matter go on

well this was a bad one team mr cameron

great thanks

the worst i'd ever been in

captain too

she came out of cape horn to the south

of us

barometer kept dropping

so we knew we were in for something big

then we started getting these huge cross

swells

and we really started to take a beating

she was listening

nearly 40 degrees and the sky started

turning black

blacken that at night

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goodbye to you too lady

where was

and the seas got heavier

than the ship

started taking water-armed decks

she was under from stem to start

tons of water on her decks and hatches

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go on

what then go on jim

the bridge letters

were washed overboard

and then

then

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go on about the waves

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she goes down into the trough of a wave

down

down like she was going over the edge of

the world

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to get what

to get

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my breath

oh

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jim

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so

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you