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CHAPTER XVII MORE STEAMBOATING
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The night before Thanksgiving Mr. Ackerman and Dick arrived at Coventry and it was difficult to believe the change wrought2 in the New York boy. Not only was his face round, rosy3 and radiant with happiness but along with a new manliness4 had stolen a gentler bearing and a courtesy that had not been there when he had set forth5 to school.
"Why, you must have put on ten pounds, Dick!" cried Mr. Tolman, shaking hands with his young guest after greeting the steamboat magnate.
"It is eleven pounds, sir," laughed Dick. "We have bully6 eats at school and all you want of them."
The final phrase had a reminiscent ring as if it harked back to a time when three ample meals were a mirage7 of the imagination.
"Well, I am glad to hear you have done justice to them and encouraged the cook," was Mr. Tolman's jocular reply. "Now while you stay here you must cheer on our cook in the same fashion. If you don't we shall think you like New Haven8 better."
"I guess there is no danger of that," put in Mr.
Ackerman. "Dick seems hollow down to his ankles. There is no filling him up; is there, boy?"
"I couldn't eat that third ice-cream you offered me yesterday," was the humorous retort.
"I hope you've saved some room for to-morrow's dinner," Mrs. Tolman interrupted, "for there will be mince9 pie and plum pudding and I don't know what not. And then there is the turkey—we ordered an extra large one on purpose."
Dick and Steve exchanged a sheepish grin.
"Well, it is jolly to see you good people," Mr. Tolman declared, as he ushered
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manliness
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beaver
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steamship
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unicorn
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ancestry
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celebrated
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vessel
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locomotion
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herald
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foes
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icebergs
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perils
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marine
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lighting
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bulwark
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hulls
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sanitation
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elasticity
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spoke
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