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Rh "And that is what will be very welcome," said the Captain, "for I have tasted no food since day-break but a farl of oat cake, which I divided with my horse; So I have been fain to draw my sword-belt three bores tighter for very extenuation, lest hunger and heavy iron should make the gird slip."