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Now
and
then
they
made
a
bit
of
money
.
Sometimes
a
mail
steamer
would
come
in
,
and
Captain
Nichols
,
having
scraped
acquaintance
with
the
timekeeper
,
would
succeed
in
getting
the
pair
of
them
a
job
as
stevedores
.
When
it
was
an
English
boat
,
they
would
dodge
into
the
forecastle
and
get
a
hearty
breakfast
from
the
crew
.
They
took
the
risk
of
running
against
one
of
the
ship
’
s
officers
and
being
hustled
down
the
gangway
with
the
toe
of
a
boot
to
speed
their
going
.
"
There
’
s
no
harm
in
a
kick
in
the
hindquarters
when
your
belly
’
s
full
,
"
said
Captain
Nichols
,
"
and
personally
I
never
take
it
in
bad
part
.
An
officer
’
s
got
to
think
about
discipline
.
"
I
had
a
lively
picture
of
Captain
Nichols
flying
headlong
down
a
narrow
gangway
before
the
uplifted
foot
of
an
angry
mate
,
and
,
like
a
true
Englishman
,
rejoicing
in
the
spirit
of
the
Mercantile
Marine
.
There
were
often
odd
jobs
to
be
got
about
the
fish
-
market
.
Once
they
each
of
them
earned
a
franc
by
loading
trucks
with
innumerable
boxes
of
oranges
that
had
been
dumped
down
on
the
quay
.
One
day
they
had
a
stroke
of
luck
:
one
of
the
boarding
-
masters
got
a
contract
to
paint
a
tramp
that
had
come
in
from
Madagascar
round
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
,
and
they
spent
several
days
on
a
plank
hanging
over
the
side
,
covering
the
rusty
hull
with
paint
.
It
was
a
situation
that
must
have
appealed
to
Strickland
’
s
sardonic
humour
.
I
asked
Captain
Nichols
how
he
bore
himself
during
these
hardships
.
"
Never
knew
him
say
a
cross
word
,
"
answered
the
Captain
.
"
He
’
d
be
a
bit
surly
sometimes
,
but
when
we
hadn
’
t
had
a
bite
since
morning
,
and
we
hadn
’
t
even
got
the
price
of
a
lie
down
at
the
Chink
’
s
,
he
’
d
be
as
lively
as
a
cricket
.
"
I
was
not
surprised
at
this
.
Strickland
was
just
the
man
to
rise
superior
to
circumstances
,
when
they
were
such
as
to
occasion
despondency
in
most
;
but
whether
this
was
due
to
equanimity
of
soul
or
to
contradictoriness
it
would
be
difficult
to
say
.
The
Chink
’
s
Head
was
a
name
the
beach
-
combers
gave
to
a
wretched
inn
off
the
Rue
Bouterie
,
kept
by
a
one
-
eyed
Chinaman
,
where
for
six
sous
you
could
sleep
in
a
cot
and
for
three
on
the
floor
.
Here
they
made
friends
with
others
in
as
desperate
condition
as
themselves
,
and
when
they
were
penniless
and
the
night
was
bitter
cold
,
they
were
glad
to
borrow
from
anyone
who
had
earned
a
stray
franc
during
the
day
the
price
of
a
roof
over
their
heads
.
They
were
not
niggardly
,
these
tramps
,
and
he
who
had
money
did
not
hesitate
to
share
it
among
the
rest
.
They
belonged
to
all
the
countries
in
the
world
,
but
this
was
no
bar
to
good
-
fellowship
;
for
they
felt
themselves
freemen
of
a
country
whose
frontiers
include
them
all
,
the
great
country
of
Cockaine
.
"
But
I
guess
Strickland
was
an
ugly
customer
when
he
was
roused
,
"
said
Captain
Nichols
,
reflectively
.
"
One
day
we
ran
into
Tough
Bill
in
the
Place
,
and
he
asked
Charlie
for
the
papers
he
’
d
given
him
.
"
