Who hath broken them?
Not us! We was paid for to haul; and haul we did, according to superior orders.

She grounded from the south, with the tide making upp'ard, somewhere about three-quarter flow; and the Squire, and you, and all the rest of 'e, without no knowledge of the Pig whatsomever, fastens all your pulley-haulies by the starn, and says, 'now pull!' And pull we did, to the tune of sixteen guineas a day for the good of Springhaven." "And you knew all the time that it was wrong! Well, I never came across such people.

But surely some one of you would have had the honesty--I beg pardon, I mean the good-will--to tell us.

I can scarcely imagine some forty men and boys preserving such a secret for nine whole days, hauling for their lives in the wrong direction, and never even by a wink or smile--" "Springhaven is like that," said Master Tugwell, proudly; "we does a thing one and all together, even if us reasons consarning it.

And over and above that, sir, there is but two men in Springhaven as understands the White Pig, barring my own self.