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Five thousand seven hunder an' forty pounds, with costs, an' exclusive o' new engines! They'd ha' done better to ha' kept me on the old timin'. "But, even so, the new Board were all for retrenchment. Young Steiner, the Jew, was at the bottom of it. They sacked men right an' left, that would not eat the dirt the Board gave 'em.
Ye know they call him the Blind Deevil, forbye he onythin' but blind, an' no deevil in his dealin's wi' me McRimmon o' the Black Bird Line. "'What's here, Mister McPhee? said he. "I was past prayin' for by then. 'A Chief Engineer sacked after twenty years' service because he'll not risk the Breslau on the new timin', an' be damned to ye, McRimmon, I said.
An' noo, says he, 'what possessed ye to throw up your berth wi' Holdock? "'The new timin', said I. 'The Breslau will not stand it. "'Hoot, oot, said he. 'Ye might ha' crammed her a little enough to show ye were drivin' her an' brought her in twa days behind. What's easier than to say ye slowed for bearin's, eh? All my men do it, and I believe 'em.
"We go along six rounds seven rounds eight rounds; an' honors even. I've been timin' his rushes an' straight-leftin' him, an' meetin' his duck with a wicked little right upper-cut, an' he's shaken me on the jaw an' walloped my ears till my head's all singin' an' buzzin'. An' everything lovely with both of us, with a noise like a draw decision in sight. Twenty rounds is the distance, you know.
"The auld man sucked in his lips an' whistled. 'AH, said he, 'the new timin'. I see! He doddered into the Board-room I'd just left, an' the Dandie-dog that is just his blind man's leader stayed wi' me. That was providential. In a minute he was back again. 'Ye've cast your bread on the watter, McPhee, an' be damned to you, he says. 'Whaur's my dog? My word, is he on your knee?
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