Bindle: Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle

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Jenkins Herbert George. Bindle: Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I. THE BINDLES AT HOME

CHAPTER II. A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE

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CHAPTER III. THE HYPNOTIC FIASCO

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CHAPTER IV. THE HEARTYS AT HOME

CHAPTER V. BINDLE TRIES A CHANGE OF WORK

CHAPTER VI. THE HOTEL CORRIDOR

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CHAPTER VII. BINDLE COMMITS AN INDISCRETION

CHAPTER VIII. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY

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CHAPTER IX. THE TEMPERANCE FÊTE

CHAPTER X. MR. HEARTY PRAYS FOR BINDLE

CHAPTER XI. MR. HEARTY BECOMES EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR

CHAPTER XII. BINDLE AGREES TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE

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CHAPTER XIII. OXFORD'S WELCOME TO BINDLE

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CHAPTER XIV. MR. HEARTY GIVES A PARTY

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CHAPTER XV. BINDLE AND THE GERMAN MENACE

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CHAPTER XVI. THE AMATEUR DETECTIVES

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CHAPTER XVII. BINDLE MAKES A MISTAKE

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CHAPTER XVIII. BINDLE ASSISTS IN AN ELOPEMENT

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CHAPTER XIX. THE SCARLET HORSE COTERIE

CHAPTER XX. MILLIE LEAVES HOME

CHAPTER XXI. CONCLUSION

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"Women," remarked Bindle, as he gazed reflectively into the tankard he had just drained, "women is all right if yer can keep 'em from marryin' yer."

"I don't 'old wiv women," growled Ginger, casting a malevolent glance at the Blue Boar's only barmaid, as she stood smirking at the other end of the long leaden counter. "Same as before," he added to the barman.

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"Why don't you stick at somethin' as if you meant it?" was her way of phrasing it. "Look at Mr. Hearty. See what he's done!" Without any thought of irreverence, Mrs. Bindle used the names of the Lord and Mr. Hearty as whips of scorpions with which on occasion she mercilessly scourged her husband.

At the time of Bindle's encounter with his onetime work-mate, Ginger, he had been tramping for hours seeking a job. He had gone even to the length of answering an advertisement for a waitress, explaining to the irritated advertiser that "wi' women it was the customers as did the waitin'," and that a man was "more nippy than a gal."

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