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    Bob's Redemption Captains All, Book 5.
    Bob's Redemption Captains All, Book 5.
    Bob's Redemption Captains All, Book 5.
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    Bob's Redemption Captains All, Book 5.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Bob's Redemption Captains All, Book 5. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bob's Redemption, by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: Bob's Redemption

      Captains All, Book 5.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: February 21, 2004 [EBook #11185]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOB'S REDEMPTION ***

      Produced by David Widger

      CAPTAINS ALL

      By W.W. Jacobs

      Book 5.

      List of Illustrations

      BOB'S REDEMPTION

      GRATITOODE! said the night-watchman, with a hard laugh. "Hmf! Don't talk to me about gratitoode; I've seen too much of it. If people wot I've helped in my time 'ad only done arf their dooty—arf, mind you—I should be riding in my carriage."

      Forgetful of the limitations of soap-boxes he attempted to illustrate his remark by lolling, and nearly went over backwards. Recovering himself by an effort he gazed sternly across the river and smoked fiercely. It was evident that he was brooding over an ill-used past.

      'Arry Thomson was one of them, he said, at last. For over six months I wrote all 'is love-letters for him, 'e being an iggernerant sort of man and only being able to do the kisses at the end, which he always insisted on doing 'imself: being jealous. Only three weeks arter he was married 'e come up to where I was standing one day and set about me without saying a word. I was a single man at the time and I didn't understand it. My idea was that he 'ad gone mad, and, being pretty artful and always 'aving a horror of mad people, I let 'im chase me into a police-station. Leastways, I would ha' let 'im, but he didn't come, and I all but got fourteen days for being drunk and disorderly.

      Then there was Bill Clark. He 'ad been keeping comp'ny with a gal and got tired of it, and to

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