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"Mammy! mammy! come and see the sailors eating out of little troughs, just like our pigs at home. " Thus exclaimed one of the steerage children, who at dinner-time was peeping down into the forecastle, where the crew were assembled, helping themselves from the "kids," which, indeed, resemble hog-troughs not a little.
"Pigs, is it? " coughed Jackson, from his bunk, where he sat presiding over the banquet, but not partaking, like a devil who had lost his appetite by chewing sulphur. -"Pigs, is it? -and the day is close by, ye spalpeens, when you'll want to be after taking a sup at our troughs!"