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Updated: May 7, 2025
"He didn't answer: kep on all the while a-squintin through the glass towards the Forest. "'No, says I, 'I'm a liberty-man from the Tremendous. "'Ah, says he, queer and quiet. 'I'm glad to hear that, Reube. Mighty glad you're not a blockade-man. "'Why for? says I, innocent-like. "'Why, says he, ''tain't healthy for blockade-chaps in these parts just now.... You heard o poor Mr. Lucy?
"Poor old mate!" he kept saying. "He'd not ha been the same if things had been different would you, old mate? I wish I'd ha shook hands with you now, I do." A shuddering voice spoke from the boat. It was the broken blockade-man. "Ow much is he dead?" he asked. "Why, dead as dirt," replied a matter-of-fact fellow, chewing his pig-tail phlegmatically.
The crowd of loungers had thinned and dispersed; the noise of itinerant musicians had died away; light after light had appeared in the windows of the different houses in the distance; blockade-man after blockade-man had passed the spot, wending his way towards his solitary post; and yet those figures had remained stationary.
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