Excerpt from The Twisted Foot
The captain's biscuits, a Huntley and Palmer tin, Were slung high beyond reach of white ants or more nauseous Vermin on a lanyard made fast to the awning stanchion. There they swung dimly, beside a bunch of ripe bananas, in the darkest part of the boat-deck. If Agapito, the mestizo steward, had stayed awake long enough to coil up loose ends but a tale was hanging by that slender cord, along With the captain's bis cuits.
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