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The men have made a sort of boiler out of an empty kerosene can with one end cut off . They attach a hose to the boiler of the engine and fill that can with hot water . The crabs cook in a short time and those men stop work to eat . It would be all right if the men cooked the crabs at noon , when we 're allowed to lay off , but they stop in the fore-noon sometimes an hour , and again in the afternoon sometimes , and eat crabs . The foreman we have now allows it . He does it himself . '' While Mr. Sutherland talked he was working .