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TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT bet there would be plenty of trouble, too, let alone mess. They came out and they were scared and they didn't have any guns but there were twelve of them. I walked backwards down to the stern holding the pump-gun. 'Get overboard/ I said. 'It's not over your heads,' Nobody moved. 'Over you go.' Nobody moved. 'You yellow rat-eating aliens/ Eddy said, 'get overboard.' 'Shut your drunken mouth,' I told him. 'No swim,' one Chink said. %No need swim,' I said. 'No deep.' 'Come on, get overboard,' Eddy said. 'Come astern here/ I said. Take your gun in one hand and your grain pole in the other and show them how deep it is.' He showed them, holding up the wet pole. 'No need swim?' the one asked me. 'No.' True?' 'Yes.5 'Where we?' 'Cuba.' 'You damn crook/ he said and went over the $, hanging on and then letting go. His head went under but he came up and his chin was out of water. 'Damn crook/he said 'Goddamn crook/ 62