Identifier: cornishfishermen00reli (find matches)
Title: The Cornish fishermen's watch-night, and other stories
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
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Publisher: (London) Religious Tract Soc
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hearty gang of navvies.Once Sam had watched and saw him reachover a part of his dinner to a mate who was not up to the mark, when the said matecould not swallow the hard fare he hadprovided himself with ; and Sam wished toknow more, being, as he would have said,*kinder curus on sich pints, so he asked.* Prhaps youll oblige ? How long have we got, mates ? Matter of half-hour before the reliefcomes/ * Ill sing you a song at last, if youll heara story first. Hear! hear! said Sam; and the restagreed. So the new hand placed himself alittle nearer the middle of the group, andleaning on his pick, began : * A bargain is a bargain, mates, and Ishall keep you to your word ; if you donthear me out—no song. Im going to talkabout my little Meg ; and if you dont knowwhy I am quiet-like now, you will before Ihave done. Once I had as nice a home as Told at a TtmncFs Mouth. 79 any man need wish for, and tlie girl Ibrought to it was the right sort, I can tellyou ; none of your flashy, dressy, empty-
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headed ones, but a right down decent hard-working maid she was. But she was reli-gious, always wanted to go to church or 8o Told at a Ttmnels Mouth, cliapel, or what not, on tlie Sunday, and Ididnt care for that ; so I told her, AHce,*says I, you have married me, and ^^oullhave to stick to me, or else therell be a row.Well, she begged to go, but I would nothear a word of it ; so she gave in. ^ So we went on for more than a year ; Iwas middlin steady, and she kept the homeup well, only I noticed she seemed lesshappy-like ; and if I stopped her going tochurch or chapel on Sunday, I couldnt gether to go out for pleasure with me ; for shesaid, Fairs fair; I keep away from oneplace to please you, I keep away from othersto please myself. And I thought there wassomething in that; dont you? The men made a murmur, half yes,half no, and seemed to grow more at-tentive ; it was level with their under-standing. He went on. Soon after that Meg was born, and howglad Alice was, to be sure! why, that

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