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THAT THERE STANDARD.

Any'ow,, 'o got it at last, but by this time the other skippers 'ach come to 'enr of it, and knowin' the old Guy'nor usually ad sume method | in is madhiess, nothin' would satisfy 'em but they must onch' get the Standard too. There Was an (With Apologiem to. W. W', Jaedhs) American and a French firm 'ad

A PARABLE.

got the rights 'em, and, of course, up won the price But the igher it went, the more the fat'eads were after it, and they even started to sell part of their gear, to 'el 'em 'En coops for get the Standard."

Ar,'

"said the Nightwatchman, as he settled himself more comfort ably on an upturned orange box by the Wharfside, them poeta knows athing or two, and the one as said the beat" is like the worst, wasn't far wrong. Many's the time my missus 'as said, sarcastic like, ↑ Ho,

And then, one day when the Com- the best is good enough for you, but only a couple of days ago Ipany's ole fleet was at sea, it socu ow 'avin' the best was the appened. You know, take it year cause of more trouble than I can in year out, you gets weather of all sorts, and losses too, but it comes so the end to yet.

a start. Wot was the good of 'an coops when you'd got a Standard? | I tell you, the junk shops was fair littered with 'em, till you couldn't 'ardly give 'em away.

It was all along of the Company's favourite skipper, 'im'as got a D.S. something or other, for wot 'e done in the War. Mind you, there's nothing about the sea 'e dunno, but 'o's got two faults, Avin' the best, regardless, and is own pig 'caded obstinacy,

Well, not so long since, the Old Man comes across a new type of Lifeboat, guarantord to keep you, afloat for Eaven knows tow long. in 'Eaven knows not. Expensive, but the best. And that's where it touched the Guy'nor. Of course, e was right, nuthin' like it for stability, and all the other itys you can lay your tongue. to, but the trouble was the Company couldn't afford it, and if they'd only stuck to the old 'en coups as every ship carries along with 'er regular boats, I wouldn't be telling this

story now.

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and goes in runs of luck, and as long as the lads themselves comes 'omo all right, we really 'aven't too much to grumblo at. But sometimes they doesn't, and that was wot the old Guv'nor, 'ad in 'is end, when e was mad for a Standard. And the others wat followed 'is iden. Thoy was right, same as wote was, they wns all of 'em right, but just ace the trouble that come out of it.

They run into dirty weather, and the further they run, the dirtier it got. Sounds like a trac from the Sailors' 'Ome, I know, but sure enough, along of neglecting the ships to get them Standards, they most of 'em couldn't make it, and "Abandon 'Ship" it was.

Now they was all at sen together, mind you," and some of the ships 'nd 'nɖ skippers wot 'nd said, “En coops I've ad for forty years, and But the 'en croops I'll keep.' weather got so dirty that they couldn't make it neither, and then just soe wot 'appened. There they could see the Guv'nor and the rest of 'em all snug aboard Standards. They looks at the. sen, and they looks at the 'on coops, and then the perishin' fat'eda starts to fling the old 'on coops over the side, and, along of their being no use in a sea! like that, each for "isself, and make for a Standard.

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Well, the long and the short of it was the Company couldn't refuse 'im nothing, and 'e got 'is way over the new boat, only even Board of Directors can's make money out of old "emp and tar, so they said 'ed 'ave to work it along with 'is or dinary expenses, But they didn't really want the darn thing, tho Standard something, or the some thing standard it was called, and they tried and they tried to put 'im off, and only to get out of

It was about this time, I reckon, anyinno" they told 'im to go (when the old Guvnor and the rest about it like wot I've said. And found 'alf of wot they calls the Mor-

o did. And wot it didn't cost.

The first I knew of it was when chant Navy comin' aboard 'em all Ginger Dick wanted to borrow art at once), that they woke up to wat a crown to feed wot 'e called 'ia lot of enthoosiasm they'd stirred yawnin' stummick, along of the " at the wrong time. But it was. Guy'nor cuttin' down on the fo'e'sle grub. That wasn't the end of it neither. Every skipper in the Com- pany as the 'andling of 'is own ship and crew, and the Directors never interferes. Well, the Old Man starts savin on the boze, is paint work, and everything 'e could save, and a lot. 'e couldn't, for it didn't do 'im no good, but with is crew starvin and grumblin', Jay in day out, and nobody appy, all along of 'is trying to get 'is Stand.nin', the old Guv'nor knows a thing Manila next day at 5 p.m. ard. The Directora never trumbled to it, but even began to lose emappened if 'e adn't been so pig b'sness, through charging people more than he ought to. Couldn't elp it. That Standard was going to cost money, and the Standard, would 'ave. Which was wat I meant about 'ia pig 'oaded obstinacy.

100 late. Them Standards is al- right properly andio, but with everybody trying to come aboard at the same time, they was a thunder- in sight worse than the old en Coops, and that's sayin' somethin'.

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or two, but it need never' 'have

ended in the first place, and now You can see wob it is to 'ave too much of the best, and all at once, like 'o wanted it.

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