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yez. Well, sez 'e, will you hadress a few words to the meet- 
in', and say as 'ow you was saved. So I gits me 'at in my 
'and and gits up and says a few words, as 'ow I was wery 
glad to find a place like this 'ere, and 'ow I was only a 
sailor man. Oh, I was feelin' wery blue, ye know. So they 
gave me 'arf a crown, and got me to 'elp them in the street 
preachin', and promised me a job. 
* Well, I 'elped them preachin' for a week, a singing 'yms 
an' talkin' in the street, and saved some souls. I was livin' 
with a laidy of colour while we was preachin', and was 
gettin' wery 'ard up, and 'ad spent all the few quid I came 
to Newlands with, hall but a shilling or two. So, thinks I, 
it's about time they gave me that employment they was 
speakin' of. So I asks them, but they 'ad honly been a 
thinkin' of it, and I must wait a little, they sez. Well, I 
'ad to go and sleep houtside the town in the country, and 
was 'alf froze with the cold, and 'ad nothin' to eat. So I 
comes to the president of the serciety, and sez I, wery 
'umble, Mr. President, sez I, I 's come to see if you 'ave got 
that hemployment you was talkin of, for I was 'ard up, I 
sez, and adn't 'ad any pay for a fortnight. 'E 'adn't any 
hemployment ! 'E was still a thinkin' of it ! So, sez I, 
Mr. President, would yer like ter know wot I thinks of 
you and yer serciety ? I don't know what ye thinks, sez 'e, 
but I know what we hare. Well, sez I, I thinks that you 
and yer serciety are a bloomin' set o' frauds. I went back 
to Caipe Town after that, and got work breakin' up an 
old man-o'-war.' 
And so he yarns on, a very slight remark setting him 
off again when he comes to a pause. His experiences in 
