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PEER
- It's blowing up stiff-
THE CAPTAIN
- -for a gale to-night.
PEER
- Can one see the Ronde Hills from the sea?
THE CAPTAIN
- No, how should you? They lie at the back of the snow-fields.
PEER
- Or Blaho?
THE CAPTAIN
- No; but from up in the rigging,
- you've a glimpse, in clear weather, of Galdhopiggen.
PEER
- Where does Harteig lie?
THE CAPTAIN [pointing].
- About over there.
PEER
- I thought so.
THE CAPTAIN
- You know where you are, it appears.
PEER
- When I left the country, I sailed by here;
- And the dregs, says the proverb, hang in to the last.
- [Spits, and gazes at the coast.]
- In there, where the scaurs and the clefts lie blue,-
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