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Excerpt from The Hole in the Wall
In these early days I lived with my mother in a little house of a Short row that stood on a quay, in a place that was not exactly a dock, nor a wharf, nor a public thoroughfare; but where people from the dock trying to find a wharf, people from a wharf looking for the dock, and people from the public thoroughfare in anxious search of dock and wharves, used to meet and ask each other questions. It was a detached piece of Blackwall which had got adrift among locks and jetties, and was liable to be cut off from the rest of the world at any moment by the arrival of a ship and the con sequent swinging of a bridge, worked by two men at a winch SO that it was a common place of my early childhood (though the sight never lost its interest) to observe from a window a Ship, passing as it were up the street, warped into dock by the capstans on the quay. And the capstan-songs Of the dock men - Sfiannaa'om, M exz'co is covered wz'lfi S now.
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