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The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: The Boatswain's Mate
Captains All, Book 2.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11182]
Language: English
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CAPTAINS ALL
By W.W. Jacobs
Book 2.
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THE BOATSWAIN'S MATE
Mr. George Benn, retired boat-swain, sighed noisily, and with a despondent gesture, turned to the door and stood with the handle in his hand; Mrs. Waters, sitting behind the tiny bar in a tall Windsor-chair, eyed him with some heat.
My feelings'll never change,
said the boatswain.
Nor mine either,
said the landlady, sharply. It's a strange thing, Mr. Benn, but you always ask me to marry you after the third mug.
It's only to get my courage up,
pleaded the boatswain. Next time I'll do it afore I 'ave a drop; that'll prove to you I'm in earnest.
He stepped outside and closed the door before the landlady could make a selection from the many retorts that crowded to her lips.
After the cool bar, with its smell of damp saw-dust, the road seemed hot and dusty; but the boatswain, a prey to gloom natural to a man whose hand has been refused five times in a fortnight, walked on unheeding. His steps lagged, but his brain was active.
He walked for two miles deep in thought, and then coming to a shady bank took a seat upon an inviting piece of turf and lit his pipe. The heat and the drowsy hum of bees made him nod; his pipe hung from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes closed.
He opened them at the sound of approaching footsteps, and, feeling in his pocket for matches, gazed lazily at the