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    Paying Off Deep Waters, Part 2.
    Paying Off Deep Waters, Part 2.
    Paying Off Deep Waters, Part 2.
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    Paying Off Deep Waters, Part 2.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Paying Off Deep Waters, Part 2. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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      Title: Paying Off

      Deep Waters, Part 2.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: March 6, 2004 [EBook #11472]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PAYING OFF ***

      Produced by David Widger

      DEEP WATERS

      By W.W. JACOBS

      PAYING OFF

      My biggest fault, said the night-watchman, gloomily, has been good nature. I've spent the best part of my life trying to do my fellow- creeturs a good turn. And what do I get for it? If all the people I've helped was to come 'ere now there wouldn't be standing room for them on this wharf. 'Arf of them would be pushed overboard—and a good place for 'em, too.

      I've been like it all my life. I was good-natured enough to go to sea as a boy because a skipper took a fancy to me and wanted my 'elp, and when I got older I was good-natured enough to get married. All my life I've given 'elp and advice free, and only a day or two ago one of 'em wot I 'ad given it to came round here with her 'usband and 'er two brothers and 'er mother and two or three people from the same street, to see her give me wot for.

      Another fault o' mine has been being sharp. Most people make mistakes, and they can't bear to see anybody as don't. Over and over agin I have showed people 'ow silly they 'ave been to do certain things, and told 'em wot I

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