Excerpt: ...When he was at Cloade's he looked on fishing as a refuge from groceries, and when he had given up groceries for fishing, he looked on a ship's fo'c'stle as a refuge from that. Fishing was very bad one summer. He and Dick Yeo agreed to run away together: "Us was doin' nort noway wi' the fishing--nort 't all. Father, Granfer that is, wer away to his drill wi' the Royal Naval Reserves. So Dick Yeo an' me agreed to go off together. Where he went, I was to go tu, an' where I went, he was to come. He had two pounds ...
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Excerpt: ...When he was at Cloade's he looked on fishing as a refuge from groceries, and when he had given up groceries for fishing, he looked on a ship's fo'c'stle as a refuge from that. Fishing was very bad one summer. He and Dick Yeo agreed to run away together: "Us was doin' nort noway wi' the fishing--nort 't all. Father, Granfer that is, wer away to his drill wi' the Royal Naval Reserves. So Dick Yeo an' me agreed to go off together. Where he went, I was to go tu, an' where I went, he was to come. He had two pounds put away, in gold. I only had half a crown, an' cuden't see me way to get no more nuther. 'Casn' thee ask thy maid for some?' Dick said. I was ashamed, like, but I did. "'What's thee want it for?" her asked. "'Tisn' nothing doing down here, ' I says, 'an' I wants to go to sea.' "'I an't got no money, ' the maid says. "'Casn' thee get nort?' I asks, having begun, you see. I'd been goin' with her for nigh on two years. "Her cried bitter at the thought o' me going, but her did get seven shillin's from a fellow servant. I told me mother--her cried tu'--an' off us started, going by train to Bristol and stopping the night at the Sailor's Rest. 'Twasn't bad, you know. They Restis be gude things. Dick, he woke in the morning wi' a swelled faace, but I didn' feel nort. "Dick Yeo paid both our boat fares from Bristol to Cardiff. The steward--what us urned against aboard ship--recommended us to a lodging house in Adelaide Street, an' he giv'd me a note for a man at the Board o' Trade, sayin' we was Demshire fishin' chaps an' gude seamen. "Well, us went to the lodging house an' gave in our bags an' took a room wi' fude food for two an' six a day--each, mind yu. Then us looked into a big underground room wer there was a lot o' foreigners gathered round a fire an' us didn' much like the looks o' that. So us went straight down to the docks an' tried to ship together on several sailing ships an' steamers. Some on 'em would...
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