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What Was It? [from Dickens' All the Year Round]

Dickens, Charles. "What Was It? [from Dickens' All the Year Round]." New-York Saturday Press, March 24, 1866, 2, 3.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The narrator follows his uncle, whom comes in contact with a group of men investigating a "monster" out at sea. It mysteriously hovers over the water, and one brash man goes out to investigate it. His ship never returns.