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    Mr. Jacobs The Drummer the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur
    Mr. Jacobs The Drummer the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur
    Mr. Jacobs The Drummer the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur
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    Mr. Jacobs The Drummer the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur

    By Arlo Bates

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Mr. Jacobs The Drummer the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur - Arlo Bates

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Jacobs, by Arlo Bates

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Mr. Jacobs

             The Drummer the Reporter and the Prestidigitateur

      Author: Arlo Bates

      Release Date: October 21, 2012 [EBook #41125]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. JACOBS ***

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      MR. JACOBS

      A TALE

      OF

      THE DRUMMER THE REPORTER

      AND THE PRESTIDIGITATEUR

      SEVENTH EDITION

      BOSTON

      W. B. CLARKE & CARRUTH

      1883

      MR. JACOBS.

      CHAPTER I.

      In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere, especially in countries where excessive liberty or excessive tiffin favors the growth of that class of adventurers most usually designated as drummers, or by a still more potent servility, the ruthless predatory instinct of certain bold and unscrupulous persons may and almost certainly will; and in those more numerous and certainly more happy countries where the travelling show is discouraged, the unwearying flatterer, patient under abstemious high-feeding, will assuredly become a roving sleight-of-hand man.

      Without doubt the Eastern portion of the world, when an hereditary, or, at least, a traditional, if not customary, or, perhaps, conservative, not to say legendary, or, more correctly speaking, historic, despotism has never ceased to ingrain the blood of Russia, Chinese, Ottoman, Persia, India, British, or Nantasket, in a perfect instance of a ruthless military tiffin, where neither blood nor stratagem have been spared.[1]

      [1] The editor was here obliged to omit a score of pages, in which the only thing worth preserving was a carcanet

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