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" How correct I was in my surmise, and how peculiarly appropriate the verse was, you shall learn.
"I won't stand it much longer, I won't," he was complaining to the man on the other side of him.

"I'll smash a windy, a big 'un, an' get run in for fourteen days.

Then I'll have a good place to sleep, never fear, an' better grub than you get here.

Though I'd miss my bit of bacey"-- this as an after-thought, and said regretfully and resignedly.
"I've been out two nights now," he went on; "wet to the skin night before last, an' I can't stand it much longer.