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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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“Gaffett
was
always
brooding
and
brooding,
and
talking
to
himself;
he
was
afraid
he
should
never
get
away,
and
it
preyed
upon
his
mind.
He
thought
when
I
got
home
I
could
interest
the
scientific
men
in
his
discovery:
but
they're
all
taken
up
with
their
own
notions;
some
didn't
even
take
pains
to
answer
the
letters
I
wrote.
You
observe
that
I
said
this
crippled
man
Gaffett
had
been
shipped
on
a
voyage
of
discovery.
I
now
tell
you
that
the
ship
was
lost
on
its
return,
and
only
Gaffett
and
two
officers
were
saved
off
the
Greenland
coast,
and
he
had
knowledge
later
that
those
men
never
got
back
to
England;
the
brig
they
shipped
on
was
run
down
in
the
night.
So
no
other
living
soul
had
the
facts,
and
he
gave
them
to
me.
There
is
a
strange
sort
of
a
country
'way
up
north
beyond
the
ice,
and
strange
folks
living
in
it.
Gaffett
believed
it
was
the
next
world
to
this.”
“What
do
you
mean,
Captain
Littlepage?”
I
exclaimed.
The
old
man
was
bending
forward
and
whispering;
he
looked
over
his
shoulder
before
he
spoke
the
last
sentence.
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