A SOFT ANSWER

The ocean liner was rolling like a chip, but as usual in such instances

one passenger was aggressively, disgustingly healthy.

"Sick, eh?" he remarked to a pale-green person who was leaning on the

rail.

The pale-green person regarded the healthy one with all the scorn he

could muster. "Sick nothing!" he snorted weakly. "I'm just hanging over

the front of the boat to see how the captain cranks it!"

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