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all get out. The old man was lyin' where the 

 sailors had left him with his face down on his 

 arms. I catched a hold of him and managed to 

 turn him over, and .his eyes was stickin' out of 

 his head till you could see the white all round in 

 the lantern light I They was glazed I I run 

 back and says to the mate that he was gone, and 

 he says: 'Re-mem-berl' 



"The next day they sewed him up in an old 

 bit of sail and put some pieces of iron at his feet 

 and laid him on a board. After the Capt'n had 

 read the prayers, he up and asks if any one knew 

 how this man come to his death. I wanted to 

 speak out but I sees the sharp, cruel eyes of Mr. 

 Green on me and I kep quiet. Then they heaved 

 the end of the board up and the body slid down 

 into the water, but it bobbed up astern three 

 times before it sunk. 



"When I was in London on that trip I went 

 to see a policeman — a bobby they calls them over 

 there — that I had made acquaintance with, and I 

 says to him 'What would they do to a man who 

 killed another man?' 'How do you know he 

 did it'?' says he kinder quick and he looks at me 



