DEEP WATERS

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Sailor man—said the night-watchman, musingly—a sailorman is like a fish he issafest when ’e is at sea. When a fish comes ashore it is in for trouble, and sois sailorman. One poor chap I knew ’ardly ever came ashore without gettingmarried; and he was found out there was no less than six wimmen in the courtall taking away ’is character at once. And when he spoke up Solomon themagistrate pretty near bit ’is ’ead off.

Then look at the trouble they get in with their money! They come ashore from along trip, smelling of it a’most, and they go from port to port like a lord.Everybody has got their eye on that money—everybody except the sailorman, thatis—and afore he knows wot’s ’appened, and who ’as got it, he’s looking for aship agin. When he ain’t robbed of ’is money, he wastes it; and when ’e don’tdo either, he loses it.

I knew one chap who hid ’is money. He’d been away ten months, and, knowing ’oweasy money goes, ’e made up sixteen pounds in a nice little parcel and hid itwhere nobody could find it. That’s wot he said, and p’r’aps ’e was right. All Iknow is, he never found it. I did the same thing myself once with a couple o’quid I ran acrost unexpected, on’y, unfortunately for me, I hid it the dayafore my missus started ’er spring-cleaning.

One o’ the worst men I ever knew for getting into trouble when he came ashorewas old Sam Small. If he couldn’t find it by ’imself, Ginger Dick and PeterRusset would help ’im look for it. Generally speaking they found it withoutstraining their eyesight.

I remember one time they was home, arter being away pretty near a year, andwhen they was paid off

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