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    The Constable's Move Captains All, Book 4.
    The Constable's Move Captains All, Book 4.
    The Constable's Move Captains All, Book 4.
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    The Constable's Move Captains All, Book 4.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Constable's Move Captains All, Book 4. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Constable's Move, by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: The Constable's Move

      Captains All, Book 4.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11184]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONSTABLE'S MOVE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      CAPTAINS ALL

      By W.W. Jacobs

      Book 4.

      List of Illustrations

      THE CONSTABLE'S MOVE

      Mr. Bob Grummit sat in the kitchen with his corduroy-clad legs stretched on the fender. His wife's half-eaten dinner was getting cold on the table; Mr. Grummit, who was badly in need of cheering up, emptied her half-empty glass of beer and wiped his lips with the back of his hand.

      Come away, I tell you, he called. D'ye hear? Come away. You'll be locked up if you don't.

      He gave a little laugh at the sarcasm, and sticking his short pipe in his mouth lurched slowly to the front-room door and scowled at his wife as she lurked at the back of the window watching intently the furniture which was being carried in next door.

      Come away or else you'll be locked up, repeated Mr. Grummit. You mustn't look at policemen's furniture; it's agin the law.

      Mrs. Grummit made no reply, but, throwing appearances to the winds, stepped to the window until her nose touched, as a walnut sideboard with bevelled glass back was tenderly borne inside under the personal supervision of Police-Constable Evans.

      They'll be 'aving a pianner next, said the indignant Mr. Grummit, peering from the depths of the room.

      They've got one, responded his wife; "there's the

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