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COMING ACROSS
So-and-so―climbing the cliffs with a girl under his arm, and all that sort of thing.'
The chaps smiled a doleful smile, and turned away again to look at the Promised Land. They had had no anxiety to speak of for the last two or three days; but now they were again face to face with the cursed question, "How to make a living." They were wondering whether or no they would get work in New Zealand, and feeling more doubtful about it than when they embarked.
Pity we couldn't go to sea and sail away for ever, and never see land any more―or, at least, not till better and brighter days―if they ever come.
