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'Upon which,' said Mr Meagles, 'as a practical man, I then and there, in

that presence, took Doyce by the collar, and told him it was plain to

me that he was an infaovernht him out of the office

door by the collar, that the very porter ht knoas a practical

man who appreciated the official estimate of such characters; and here

we are!' If that airy young Barnacle had been there, he would have frankly told

them perhaps that the Circumlocution Office had achieved its function

That what the Barnacles had to do, was to stick on to the national ship

as long as they could That to trihten the ship, clean

the ship, would be to knock them off; that they could but be knocked off

once; and that if the ship went doith the to it, that

was the ship's look out, and not theirs