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A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS 73
Like a flash, for all his eighty-seven years, the old sailor was speeding away on the desperate chance of finding shelter elsewhere. I stood and debated with two other men, wise in the knowledge of casual wards, as to where we should go. They decided on the Poplar Workhouse, three miles away, and we started off. As we rounded the corner, one of them said, "I could a'got in 'ere to-day. I come by at one o'clock, an' the line was beginnin' to form then — pets, that s what they are. They let 'm in, the same
ones, night upon night."
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