I am well-nigh starved.

I have got a wife and children to think of, and it don't matter to me whether this chap goes to Botany Bay, or whether he don't.

It didn't seem to me a certain case, all along, so I will go along with you.' "Gradually two or three more comes, and when it got light I could see as some more was hesitating so, says I: "'Lookee here, my friends.

Those who has agreed to give this young chap another chance has lessened my stock of bread and bacon pretty considerable, and I ain't got more than enough for one more, so who's the next ?' "Four more spoke out at once.

I divides the bread and bacon among them; then, as there was nine of us agin three, we goes at them and tells them how wrong it is as we was all to suffer from their obstinacy, and we works on their feelings about their wives and children; and then, says I: "'I call it downright ridiculous, when there's a hot breakfast on twelve tables waiting for us, as three men should keep the rest from tucking in, just acause they won't give an innocent lad the benefit of the doubt.' "Well, that finished them.