Chapter 1. The Garret And The Garden Or Low Life High Up
_ CHAPTER ONE. THE GARRET AND THE GARDEN OR LOW LIFE HIGH UP
SUDDEN FRIENDSHIPS.
In the midst of the great wilderness--we might almost say the wilds--of that comparatively unknown region which lies on the Surrey side of the Thames, just above London Bridge, there sauntered one fine day a big bronzed seaman of middle age. He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court. There he stood still for a few seconds and looked around him as if in quest of something.
It was a miserable poverty-stricken court, with nothing to commend it to the visitor save a certain air of partial-cleanliness and semi-respectability, which did not form a feature of the courts in its neighbourhood.
"I say, Capting," remarked a juvenile voice close at hand, "you‘ve bin an sailed into the wrong port."
The sailor glanced in all directions, but was unable to see the owner of the voice until a sligh

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