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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mulholland's Contract</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,<br>An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free --<br>An' the lights went out on the lower deck, an' no one near but me.<br> <br>I had been singin' to them to keep 'em quiet there,<br>For the lower deck is the dangerousest, requirin' constant care,<br>An' give to me as the strongest man, though used to drink and swear.<br> <br>I see my chance was certain of bein' horned or trod,<br>For the lower deck was packed with steers thicker'n peas in a pod,<br>An' more pens broke at every roll -- so I made a Contract with God.<br> <br>An' by the terms of the Contract, as I have read the same,<br>If He got me to port alive I would exalt His Name,<br>An' praise His Holy Majesty till further orders came.<br> <br>He saved me from the cattle an' He saved me from the sea,<br>For they found me 'tween two drownded ones where the roll had landed me --<br>An' a four-inch crack on top of my head, as crazy as could be.<br> <br>But that were done by a stanchion, an' not by a bullock at all,<br>An' I lay still for seven weeks convalessing of the fall,<br>An' readin' the shiny Scripture texts in the Seaman's Hospital.<br> <br>An' I spoke to God of our Contract, an' He says to my prayer:<br>&quot;I never puts on My ministers no more than they can bear.<br>So back you go to the cattle-boats an' preach My Gospel there.<br> <br>&quot;For human life is chancy at any kind of trade,<br>But most of all, as well you know, when the steers are mad-afraid;<br>So you go back to the cattle-boats an' preach 'em as I've said.<br> <br>&quot;They must quit drinkin' an' swearin', they mustn't knife on a blow,<br>They must quit gamblin' their wages, and you must preach it so;<br>For now those boats are more like Hell than anything else I know.&quot;<br> <br>I didn't want to do it, for I knew what I should get,<br>An' I wanted to preach Religion, handsome an' out of the wet,<br>But the Word of the Lord were lain on me, an' I done what I was set.<br> <br>I have been smit an' bruis]\ed, as warned would be the case,<br>An' turned my cheek to the smiter exactly as Scripture says;<br>But following that, I knocked him down an' led him up to Grace.<br> <br>An' we have preaching on Sundays whenever the sea is calm,<br>An' I use no knife or pistol an' I never take no harm,<br>For the Lord abideth back of me to guide my fighting arm.<br> <br>An' I sign for four-pound-ten a month and save the money clear,<br>An' I am in charge of the lower deck, an' I never lose a steer;<br>An' I believe in Almighty God an' preach His Gospel here.<br> <br>The skippers say I'm crazy, but I can prove 'em wrong,<br>For I am in charge of the lower deck with all that doth belong --<br>~Which they would not give to a lunatic, and the competition so strong!~</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free --
An' the lights went out on the lower deck, an' no one near but me.
 
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