The Ebb-Tide


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Where do you get your labour from anyway?' asked Davis.  
Ah, where not?' answered Attwater.  
Not much of a soft job, I suppose?' said the captain.  
If you will tell me where getting labour is!' said Attwater with a  
shrug. 'And of course, in our case, as we could name no destination,  
we had to go far and wide and do the best we could. We have gone as far  
west as the Kingsmills and as far south as Rapa-iti. Pity Symonds isn't  
here! He is full of yarns. That was his part, to collect them. Then  
began mine, which was the educational.'  
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You mean to run them?' said Davis.  
Ay! to run them,' said Attwater.  
Wait a bit,' said Davis, 'I'm out of my depth. How was this? Do you  
mean to say you did it single-handed?'  
'One did it single-handed,' said Attwater, 'because there was nobody to  
help one.'  
'By God, but you must be a holy terror!' cried the captain, in a glow of  
admiration.  
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