Part 16
So Pomfrett invested Mr Dawkins’s little fortune, and bought him a white cottage by the water-side, with a stout sail-boat moored at the garden foot, and a flagstaff in a gravelled square, bordered with sea-shells. There the old gentleman entertains his old friend, the Reverend Jeremiah Ramsbottom, who is understood to be piloting Mr Dawkins’s soul on the straight course to the Golden Gates.
“I never knowed,” says Dawkins, “that religion were that easy. Why, a child could learn it! You ain’t got to do nothing, on’y avoid several things what a man of my age and experience don’t want to do anything _but_ avoid, and believe what the chaplain tells you to believe. Believe! Why, there ain’t anything a seaman can’t believe, I often think, if he lays his mind to it. That,” says Dawkins, with a wink, “is the benefit of being a sailor, d’ye see. And to think o’ the many poor seamen drowned, what ain’t had my opportunities! Ah, well, they’re all right, too; we’ll meet again, I reckon--
“‘We’ll meet again at Fiddler’s Green, All up among the stars.’”
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