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It was a momentous occasion. The two skippers sat in the private bar of the "Old Ship," in High Street, Wapping, solemnly sipping cold gin and smoking cigars, whose sole merit consisted in the fact that they had been smuggled. It is well known all along the waterside that this greatly improves their flavour.
"Draw all right? " queried Captain Berrow-a short, fat man of few ideas, who was the exulting owner of a bundle of them.