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person or persons invisible directed him to the male urinal
erected by the cleansing committee all over the place for
the purpose but after a brief space of time during which si-
lence reigned supreme the sailor, evidently giving it a wide
berth, eased himself closer at hand, the noise of his bilgewa-
ter some little time subsequently splashing on the ground
where it apparently awoke a horse of the cabrank. A hoof
scooped anyway for new foothold after sleep and harness
jingled. Slightly disturbed in his sentrybox by the brazier of
live coke the watcher of the corporation stones who, though
now broken down and fast breaking up, was none other in
stern reality than the Gumley aforesaid, now practically on
the parish rates, given the temporary job by Pat Tobin in all
human probability from dictates of humanity knowing him
before shifted about and shuffled in his box before compos-
ing his limbs again in to the arms of Morpheus, a truly
amazing piece of hard lines in its most virulent form on a
fellow most respectably connected and familiarised with
decent home comforts all his life who came in for a cool
100 pounds a year at one time which of course the double-
barrelled ass proceeded to make general ducks and drakes
of. And there he was at the end of his tether after having
often painted the town tolerably pink without a beggarly
stiver. He drank needless to be told and it pointed only once
more a moral when he might quite easily be in a large way
of business if—a big if, however—he had contrived to cure
himself of his particular partiality.
All meantime were loudly lamenting the falling off in
Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all