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That night brought the climax; he had reached the limit of endurance and was brought home by two sailors who had found him on the Man-of-War Steps. A wild southerly buster was blowing, bringing rain with it in floods. He was drenched and so were the sailors. "He isn't half shikkered," said one of the boys admiringly. "Trying to jump in the harbour, saying the Germans was after him!
And my back's that bad I do suffer with my back something cruel." "Where has he gone, then?" "Oh, beer-bumming. He goes off every day, and comes in every night after closing time, shikkered up." "I've never seen him before," ventured Marcella. "He's a lad, Bob is. We had a bonser hotel once, kid a tied house, you know. He was manager, on'y he drunk us out of it.
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