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Updated: May 27, 2025
"I always make a bit of a prayer before turnin'-in," remarked Jack, in appendix to a story which Chaucer or Boccaccio would have rejected with horror; then the poor fellow laid his pipe on the table, and, kneeling by his bedside, repeated in a firm, reverent voice an almost unrecognisable version of the Lord's Prayer, and an unconscious parody on Ken's Evening Hymn: 'Glory to Thee, my God, this night.
"See, it's this way with me," he continued, rising from his knees and re-lighting his pipe "las' time I seen my pore mother widow-woman, she was, for my ole man he 'd shipped bo'sun o' the Raglan, las' time she weighed 'Jack, says the ole woman to me, an' the tears rollin' down her face it'lI be goin' on five year ago now 'Jack, says she; 'promise me you'll always make a bit of a prayer before turnin'-in; for the Lord says anybody that 's ashamed o' Him, He'll be ashamed o' him at the day o' judgment. Awful ain't it?
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