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or twenty-five thousand. No, they don't — not 

 when you comes to reckon it out ! For all they 

 got the capital, an' they gert ships, an' steam 

 power, an' us an't got no capital to speak of nor 

 nort, they an't beat us eet! 



'I wonder w'er they'm catching ort at home. 

 . . . An' us an't got the nets boated eet in our ol' 

 craft! When did 'ee say us was going back? 

 T'morrow? 



But from that moment, really, we were home- 

 ward bound. 



1909-10. 



