Pip's notes on the slippermen who work the Loxley after murkneet keep circling back to Jed, who feared nothing. "But Jed, what about the skull moon? Tha ain't supposed to go out when the skull moon is up. Tis dangerous and tha is likely to come a cropper." "Just a trick of t'murk. Tha lot go on believing that, and I'll keep tekin me share of them slippers from the river in the murkneet. If tha lot is too scared to come out of tha 'ouses at neet, that's tha own business, nowt to do with me. Me, I'd rather be deed than live in fear like tha lot does."







