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Then he added : `` There 's a lot o ' people there yit . That feller from Philadelphy who 's mashed on Cobden 's aunt was swellin ' around in a potato-bug suit o ' clothes as big as life . '' This last was given from behind his hand after he had glanced around the room and found that Archie was absent . At eight o'clock , when Parks and Archie left the Station to begin their patrol , Parks was obliged to hold on to the rail of the porch to steady himself , and Archie , being less sure of his feet , was blown against the water-barrel before he could get his legs well under him . At the edge of the surf the two separated for their four hours ' patrol , Archie breasting the gale on his way north , and Parks hurrying on , helped by the wind , to the south . At ten o'clock Parks returned . He had made his first round , and had exchanged his brass check with the patrol at the next station .