marks on the billets; and the

forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the

stain of the old rag she wound about her head again. Those who

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had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a

tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched,

his head more out of a long squalid bag of a night-cap than in it,