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The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories

Chapter XIV · Chapter 14

Chapter 14 of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Chapter 14 of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories by Frank R. Stockton holds 191 sentences, grouped into 39 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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"Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.
Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.
But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.
All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.
What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.
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The Magic Egg, and Other Stories

Chapter XIV · Chapter 14

Chapter 14 of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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"Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.
Line 2
Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.
Line 3
But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.
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All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.
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What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.
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All

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

along

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

an

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

Andy

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

any

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

at

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

be

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

been

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

began

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

Bein

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

blowed

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

But

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

by

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

come

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

comfortable

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

command

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

commanded

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

consider

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

couldn't

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

craft

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

Davy

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

deck

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

do

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

due

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

durin

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

easy

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

enough

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

for

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

fur

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

go

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

grit

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

had

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

he

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

he'd

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

heared

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

him

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

himself

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

holdin

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

hotter

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

I

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

if

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

in

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

it

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

Jones's

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

latitood

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

likely

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

line

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

locker

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

make

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

mate

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

me

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

most

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

never

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

nigh

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

nothin

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

Now

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

of

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

on

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

pretty

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

rights

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

say

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

second

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

see

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

sot

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

still

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

than

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

that

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

the

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

there'd

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From this reading But it was easy enough to see that if he commanded there'd never be nothin' fur Andy an' me to do.

thinkin

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

this

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

till

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

time

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

to

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

Tom

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.

typhoon

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

up

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

used

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From this reading All the grit he had in him he'd used up in holdin' on durin' that typhoon.

wanted

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

was

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From this reading Bein' second mate, Tom was, by rights, in command of this craft.

we'd

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

west

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

What

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From this reading What he wanted to do now was to make himself comfortable till the time come for him to go to Davy Jones's locker--an' thinkin', most likely, that Davy couldn't make it any hotter fur him than it was on that deck, still in latitood nothin' at all, fur we'd been blowed along the line pretty nigh due west.

when

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From this reading "Now when I heared Tom say this I sot still an' began to consider.