mouth will you take three thousand for that as he stands no thank you i ve an idea he s saved my life said getting off and lying down at full length both were on the ground too waving their boots in the air and and drawing deep as the ran up to take away the and an water sprinkled the players with dirty water till they sat up my aunt i said rubbing his back and looking at the of the goal posts that was a game i they played it over again every stroke of it that night at the big dinner when the free for all cup was and passed down the table and emptied and again and everybody made most eloquent speeches about two in the morning when there might have been the cat some a wise little plain little grey little head looked in through the open door bring him in said the and his who was very happy indeed patted the cat on the flank and he in to the blaze of light and the glittering looking for he w� is used to and men s and places where are not usually encouraged and in his youth had jumped on and off a mess table for a bet so he behaved himself very politely and ate bread dipped in salt and was all round the table moving and they drank his health because he had done more to win the cup than any man or horse on the ground that was glory and honour enough for the rest of his days and the cat did not complain much when the surgeon said that he would be no good for any more when married his wife did not allow him to play so he was forced to be an and his pony on these occasions was a bitten grey with a neat tail lame all round but desperately quick on his feet and as everybody knew past player of the bread upon the waters bread upon the waters if you remember my improper friend you will also bear in mind his friend chief engineer of the whose tried to steal his apologies for the performances of may one day be told in their proper place the tale before us concerns he was never a racing engineer and took special pride in saying as much before the liverpool men but he had a thirty two years knowledge of machinery and the of ship one side of his face had been wrecked through the bursting of a pressure in the days when men knew less than they do now and his nose rose out of the wreck like a club in a public riot there were cuts and on his head and he would guide your forefinger through his short iron grey hair and tell you how he had come by his trade marks he owned all sorts of of extra and at the bottom of his cabin chest of drawers where he kept the photograph of his wife were two or three royal humane society for saving lives at sea it was different when crazy passengers jumped bread upon the waters does not approve of saving life at sea and he has often told me that a new and who sign for a strong man pay and fall sick the second day out he believes in throwing boots at fourth and fifth when they wake him up at night with word that a bearing is all because a lamp s glare is reflected red from the metal he believes that there are only two poets in the world one being robert of course and the other when he has time for novels he reads and charles chiefly the and knows whole pages of very hard cash by heart in the saloon his table is next to the captain s and he drinks only water while his engines work he was good to me when we met because i did not ask questions and believed in charles as a most neglected author later he approved of my writings to the extent of one of twenty four pages that i wrote for chase owners of the line when they bought some patent and fitted it to the of the and the of the recommended me to s secretary for the job and who is a an invited me to his house and gave me dinner with the when the others had finished and placed the plans and in my hand and i wrote the that same afternoon it was called comfort in the cabin and brought me seven pound ten cash an important sum of money in those days and the who bread upon the waters was master john his scales told me that mrs had told her to keep an eye on me in case i went away with coats from the hat rack liked that for it was composed in the style with and and afterwards he introduced me to mrs who succeeded in my heart for was half a world away and it is wholesome and to love such a woman as they lived in a little twelve pound house close to the shipping when was away mrs read the column in the papers and called on the wives of senior of equal social standing once or twice too mrs visited mrs in a with and i have reason to believe that after she had played owner s wife long enough they talked scandal the lived in an old fashioned house with a big brick garden not a mile from the for they stayed by their money as their money stayed by them and in you met their solemnly by or but i was mrs s friend for she allowed me to her westward sometimes tp theatres where she sobbed or laughed or shivered with a simple heart and she introduced me to a new 