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Updated: June 2, 2025
The finale of this tale was received with a burst of incredulous laughter by those who heard it. 'Do you 'ear what Harlow says, Bob? Easton shouted to Crass. 'No. What was it? ''E ses 'e once 'ad a chance to 'ave something but 'e wouldn't take it on because it was too ugly! 'If it 'ad bin me, I should 'ave shut me bl y eyes, cried Sawkins. 'I wouldn't pass it for a trifle like that.
With a lurch to the right and another to the left he started, and presently the little funeral disappeared down the road that led to the "town" and its cemetery. About six months afterwards Bob Sawkins went on a short journey, and returned with a tall, bearded young man. He and Bob arrived after dark, and went straight to Mason's hut.
It's no use takin' the box unless we know the corpse is there; for all we know, Snatchum may 'ave taken it 'ome with 'im. 'Yes; I think that'll be the best way, agreed Crass, after a moment's thought. Nimrod and Sawkins accordingly took shelter in the doorway of an empty house, leaving the handcart at the kerb, while Crass went across the street and knocked at Philpot's door.
The next morning after breakfast, Philpot, Sawkins, Harlow and Barrington went to the Yard to get the long ladder the 65 so called because it had sixty-five rungs. It was really what is known as a builder's scaffold ladder, and it had been strengthened by several iron bolts or rods which passed through just under some of the rungs.
'There's plenty of time for that in the dinner hour! Nimrod now went down to the drawing-room, which Easton and Owen had been painting. He stood here deep in thought for some time, mentally comparing the quantity of work done by the two men in this room with that done by Sawkins in the attics.
At a signal from Crass, Dawson and Sawkins began to haul on the rope, and the top of the ladder began to use slowly into the air. Philpot was not of much use at this work, which made it all the harder for the other two who were lifting, besides putting an extra strain on the rope.
Philpot said that, in order to get on with the business, he would second the resolution. Bundy suggested as an amendment that it should be a whole day, starting from the Cricketers at nine in the morning, and Sawkins said that, in order to get on with the business, he would second the amendment. One of the new hands said he wished to move another amendment.
After staying three days at Santa Maria, they embarked in canoes and other small craft for the South Sea. They came in sight of Panama on the 23d April, and in vain attempted to take Puebla Nova, where their commander Captain Sawkins was slain.
There were fourteen of these boats, all of them of small size. Sharp, Coxon, and Cook were placed in charge of them. Captain Harris was told off to travel with the land party, with Sawkins, King Golden Cap, and the other men. Basil Ringrose, who was one of the boat party, has told us of the miseries of the "glide down the stream."
They carried collecting boxes and accosted the people in the street, begging for money for the unemployed. These men were a kind of skirmishers for the main body, which could be seen some distance behind. As the procession drew near, Sawkins steered the cart into the kerb and halted as they went past. There were about three hundred men altogether, marching four abreast.
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