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Bill's Paper Chase Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 3. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: Bill's Paper Chase
Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 3.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: April 22, 2004 [EBook #12123]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BILL'S PAPER CHASE ***
Produced by David Widger
THE LADY OF THE BARGE
AND OTHER STORIES
By W. W. Jacobs
BOOK 3
BILL'S PAPER CHASE
Sailormen 'ave their faults, said the night watchman, frankly. I'm not denying of it. I used to 'ave myself when I was at sea, but being close with their money is a fault as can seldom be brought ag'in 'em.
I saved some money once—two golden sovereigns, owing to a 'ole in my pocket. Before I got another ship I slept two nights on a doorstep and 'ad nothing to eat, and I found them two sovereigns in the lining o' my coat when I was over two thousand miles away from the nearest pub.
I on'y knew one miser all the years I was at sea. Thomas Geary 'is name was, and we was shipmates aboard the barque Grenada, homeward bound from Sydney to London.
Thomas was a man that was getting into years; sixty, I think 'e was, and old enough to know better. 'E'd been saving 'ard for over forty years, and as near as we could make out 'e was worth a matter o' six 'undered pounds. He used to be fond o' talking about it, and letting us know how much better off 'e was than any of the rest of us.
We was about a month out from Sydney when old Thomas took sick. Bill