"If I'd only stopped to think, instead o' being in such a hurry to do good to others, I should ha' been all right, and the pack o' monkey-faced swabs on the <i>Lizzie and Annie</i> wot calls themselves sailor-men would 'ave had to 'ave got something else to laugh about.

"Down by the line in that little swab of a sand island.

By early afternoon, the answer, on great, black-lettered posters, was swabbed to the sides of buildings all over town: "DE VALERA RECEPTION FORBIDDEN!"