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p 210 THE CONVICT SHIP they have to pay handsomely for slaves ; in the colonies the slaves called convicts cost their masters nothing but their keep.' ' Let us change the subject,' said my aunt ; ' really all this talk of convicts and trans- portation makes me feel as if one was just out of jail oneself. I wish they would give Will another vessel. I do not at all like the idea of a convict ship.' 6 Pshaw ! ' exclaimed my uncle, and left the room.
Next day I called upon Mr. Woolfe and requested ...him carefully to ascertain what or how many ships had been accepted by tender for the transport of criminals between this and a date I named to him. I promised him a handsome fee if he could accurately find this out for me. I don't know how he went to work ; probably he obtained his informa- tion direct from the Admiralty ; I did not in- quire. But in a few days he managed to learn all I desired to know, and without my having told him that I was aware the Childe Harold's tender had been accepted, he in- formed me that the only transport taken up, SHE CONCEIVES A STRANGE IDEA 211 the only ship, indeed, whose services were required down to the end of the year, was the Childe Harold, and that Government would not call for further tenders till the following spring.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
p 210 THE CONVICT SHIP they have to pay handsomely for slaves ; in the colonies the slaves called convicts cost their masters nothing but their keep.' ' Let us change the subject,' said my aunt ; ' really all this talk of convicts and trans- portation makes me feel as if one was just out of jail oneself. I wish they would give Will another vessel. I do not at all like the idea of a convict ship.' 6 Pshaw ! ' exclaimed my uncle, and left the room.
Next day I called upon Mr. Woolfe and requested ...him carefully to ascertain what or how many ships had been accepted by tender for the transport of criminals between this and a date I named to him. I promised him a handsome fee if he could accurately find this out for me. I don't know how he went to work ; probably he obtained his informa- tion direct from the Admiralty ; I did not in- quire. But in a few days he managed to learn all I desired to know, and without my having told him that I was aware the Childe Harold's tender had been accepted, he in- formed me that the only transport taken up, SHE CONCEIVES A STRANGE IDEA 211 the only ship, indeed, whose services were required down to the end of the year, was the Childe Harold, and that Government would not call for further tenders till the following spring.
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