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Tonight, we'll read an excerpt titled A Fish Drive on a Micronesian A Tolloll from a book of short stories called Redan the Devil by Louis Beck

published in 1899. Beck was an Australian Pacific trader, short story writer, and novelist. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. We were thrashing.

We were thrashing our way in a little brigantine owned by Tom

de Wolf of Liverpool against the strong northeast trade wind from the Western Carolines to

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