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Seals and a voyage aboard the Laughing Lass
The narrator recalls a crew aboard the Laughing Lass led by Captain Selover hunting seals for their whiskers and galls to profit in a tense, drifting voyage. Tension with Handy Solomon and Thrackles grows as mutiny, discipline, and a plan to tell Dr. Schermerhorn’s lab story bubble beneath daily seal work
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Darrow
Solomon
Percy Darrow
Wen
Handy Solomon
Selover
Perdosa
Thrackles
Landy Solomon
Hallflards
Tandy Solomon
London
Dr. Schermerhorn
Selover II