Ship's Company, the Entire Collection

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William Wymark Jacobs. Ship's Company, the Entire Collection

FINE FEATHERS

FRIENDS IN NEED

GOOD INTENTIONS

FAIRY GOLD

WATCH-DOGS

THE BEQUEST

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

DUAL CONTROL

SKILLED ASSISTANCE

FOR BETTER OR WORSE

THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

“MANNERS MAKYTH MAN”

Отрывок из книги

R. Joseph Gibbs finished his half-pint in the private bar of the Red Lion with the slowness of a man unable to see where the next was coming from, and, placing the mug on the counter, filled his pipe from a small paper of tobacco and shook his head slowly at his companions.

“First I’ve ‘ad since ten o’clock this morning,” he said, in a hard voice.

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“Went down on the ebb tide,” explained Mr. Brown; and spoilt Mr. Kidd’s opening.

“Wherever he is ‘e’s better off,” said Mrs. Gibbs.

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