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    Stepping Backwards Night Watches, Part 5.
    Stepping Backwards Night Watches, Part 5.
    Stepping Backwards Night Watches, Part 5.
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    Stepping Backwards Night Watches, Part 5.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs and Stanley Davis

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Stepping Backwards Night Watches, Part 5. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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      Title: Stepping Backwards

      Night Watches, Part 5.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 26, 2004 [EBook #12155]

      Language: English

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      STEPPING BACKWARDS

      Wonderful improvement, said Mr. Jack Mills. Show 'em to me again.

      Mr. Simpson took his pipe from his mouth and, parting his lips, revealed his new teeth.

      And you talk better, said Mr. Mills, taking his glass from the counter and emptying it; you ain't got that silly lisp you used to have. What does your missis think of 'em?

      She hasn't seen 'em yet, said the other. I had 'em put in at dinner- time. I ate my dinner with 'em.

      Mr. Mills expressed his admiration. If it wasn't for your white hair and whiskers you'd look thirty again, he said, slowly. How old are you?

      Fifty-three, said his friend. If it wasn't for being laughed at I've often thought of having my whiskers shaved off and my hair dyed black. People think I'm sixty.

      Or seventy, continued Mr. Mills. What does it matter, people laughing? You've got a splendid head of 'air, and it would dye beautiful.

      Mr. Simpson shook his head and, ordering a couple of glasses of bitter, attacked his in silence.

      It might be done gradual, he said, after a long interval. It don't do anybody good at the warehouse to look old.

      Make a clean job of it, counselled Mr. Mills, who was very fond of a little

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