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There are vast boot and shoe factories, which would have shod our whole Crimean army in a week, at one of which the owner pays 60,000 dollars or 12,000l. in wages annually! It consumes 5000 pounds weight of boot-nails per annum! The manufactories of locks and guns, tools, and carriages, with countless other appliances of civilized life, are on a similarly large scale.
"It sounded like a cobbler a-hammering in nails." "Have you over seen any boot-nails on the yacht?" "Yes. When I was a-clearin' up the cabin the next mornin', I found a hobnail on the floor in a corner by the locker." "Were you on board on the night when Mr. Hearn died?" "Yes. I'd been ashore, but I came aboard about half-past nine." "Did you see Mr. Hearn go ashore?" "I see him leave the yacht.
Boot-leather, stout boot-nails, and useful paper are requirements which I hope you will be able to supply sufficiently for a second season. The only want for the second season which I can foresee is reindeer pelts for repairing sleeping-bags. I very much fear you will not have brought any: anything you can provide to make good the want would be acceptable.
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