Ms. in a Bottle

"There, entangled in seaweed and driftwood and half buried in sand, was an odd bottle--sealed with a cork.

I lifted it out of the tangle, brushed off the sand--and looked at it more closely.

I could see through the smoky blue glass that the bottle contained something.

I drew out the cork, gave it a good shake--and
out fell a scrap of paper.

And ON the paper was a scrawled message!

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