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Title: The Nest Egg
Captains All, Book 3.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11183]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NEST EGG ***
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CAPTAINS ALL
By W.W. Jacobs
Book 3.
List of Illustrations
THE NEST EGG
Artfulness,
said the night-watch-man, smoking placidly, is a gift; but it don't pay always. I've met some artful ones in my time—plenty of 'em; but I can't truthfully say as 'ow any of them was the better for meeting me.
He rose slowly from the packing-case on which he had been sitting and, stamping down the point of a rusty nail with his heel, resumed his seat, remarking that he had endured it for some time under the impression that it was only a splinter.
I've surprised more than one in my time,
he continued, slowly. When I met one of these 'ere artful ones I used fust of all to pretend to be more stupid than wot I really am.
He stopped and stared fixedly.
More stupid than I looked,
he said. He stopped again.
More stupid than wot they thought I looked,
he said, speaking with marked deliberation. And I'd let 'em go on and on until I thought I had 'ad about enough, and then turn round on 'em. Nobody ever got the better o' me except my wife, and that was only before we was married. Two nights arterwards she found a fish-hook in my trouser-pocket, and arter that I could ha' left untold gold there—if
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