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    The White Cat Captains All, Book 10.
    The White Cat Captains All, Book 10.
    The White Cat Captains All, Book 10.
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    The White Cat Captains All, Book 10.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The White Cat Captains All, Book 10. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The White Cat, 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

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The White Cat

      Captains All, Book 10.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11190]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WHITE CAT ***

      Produced by David Widger

      CAPTAINS ALL

      By W.W. Jacobs

      Book 10.

      List of Illustrations

      THE WHITE CAT

      The traveller stood looking from the tap-room window of the Cauliflower at the falling rain. The village street below was empty, and everything was quiet with the exception of the garrulous old man smoking with much enjoyment on the settle behind him.

      It'll do a power o' good, said the ancient, craning his neck round the edge of the settle and turning a bleared eye on the window. I ain't like some folk; I never did mind a drop o' rain.

      The traveller grunted and, returning to the settle opposite the old man, fell to lazily stroking a cat which had strolled in attracted by the warmth of the small fire which smouldered in the grate.

      He's a good mouser, said the old man, but I expect that Smith the landlord would sell 'im to anybody for arf a crown; but we 'ad a cat in Claybury once that you couldn't ha' bought for a hundred golden sovereigns.

      The traveller continued to caress the cat.

      A white cat, with one yaller eye and one blue one, continued the old man. It sounds queer, but it's as true as I sit 'ere wishing that I 'ad another mug o' ale as good as the last you gave me.

      The traveller, with a start that upset the cat's nerves, finished his own mug,

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