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    The Third String Odd Craft, Part 12.
    The Third String Odd Craft, Part 12.
    The Third String Odd Craft, Part 12.
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    The Third String Odd Craft, Part 12.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs and Will Owen

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Third String Odd Craft, Part 12. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Third String, by W.W. Jacobs

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: The Third String

      Odd Craft, Part 12.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12212]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE THIRD STRING ***

      Produced by David Widger

      1909

      PART 12.

      List of Illustrations

      Don't Talk to Me About Love, Because I've Suffered Enough Through It.

      Miss Tucker.

      'Let Go O' That Young Lady's Arm,' he Ses.

      Bill Lumm, 'aving Peeled, Stood Looking on While Ginger Took 'is Things Off.

      The Way he Carried on when the Landlady Fried The Steak Showed 'ow Upset he Was.

      THE THIRD STRING

      Love? said the night-watchman, as he watched in an abstracted fashion the efforts of a skipper to reach a brother skipper on a passing barge with a boathook. Don't talk to me about love, because I've suffered enough through it. There ought to be teetotalers for love the same as wot there is for drink, and they ought to wear a piece o' ribbon to show it, the same as the teetotalers do; but not an attractive piece o' ribbon, mind you. I've seen as much mischief caused by love as by drink, and the funny thing is, one often leads to the other. Love, arter it is over, often leads to drink, and drink often leads to love and to a man committing himself for life afore it is over.

      Sailormen give way to it most; they see so little o' wimmen that they naturally 'ave a high opinion of 'em. Wait till they become night-watchmen and, having to be at 'ome all day, see the other side of 'em. If people on'y started life as night-watchmen there wouldn't be one 'arf the falling in love that there is now.

      I remember one chap, as nice a fellow as you could wish to meet, too. He always carried his sweet-heart's photograph about with 'im, and it

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