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The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon by H. de Vere Stacpoole, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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8chapters
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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.”
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