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    Odd Charges Odd Craft, Part 13.
    Odd Charges Odd Craft, Part 13.
    Odd Charges Odd Craft, Part 13.
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    Odd Charges Odd Craft, Part 13.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs and Will Owen

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Odd Charges Odd Craft, Part 13. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Odd Charges, by W.W. Jacobs

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

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      Title: Odd Charges

      Odd Craft, Part 13.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12213]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ODD CHARGES ***

      Produced by David Widger

      1909

      PART 13.

      List of Illustrations

      Seated at his Ease in the Warm Tap-room of The Cauliflower.

      Putting his 'and to Bill's Mug, he Took out a Live Frog.

      He Was Running Along to Bob Pretty's As Fast As 'is Legs Would Take 'im.

      Afore Anybody Could Move, he Brought It Down Bang on The Face O' the Watch.

      The Scream 'e Gave As George Kettle Pointed the Pistol At 'im Was Awful.

      ODD CHARGES

      Seated at his ease in the warm tap-room of the Cauliflower, the stranger had been eating and drinking for some time, apparently unconscious of the presence of the withered ancient who, huddled up in that corner of the settle which was nearer to the fire, fidgeted restlessly with an empty mug and blew with pathetic insistence through a churchwarden pipe which had long been cold. The stranger finished his meal with a sigh of content and then, rising from his chair, crossed over to the settle and, placing his mug on the time-worn table before him, began to fill his pipe.

      The old man took a spill from the table and, holding it with trembling fingers to the blaze, gave him a light. The other thanked him, and then, leaning back in his corner of the settle, watched the smoke of his pipe through half-closed eyes, and assented drowsily to the old man's remarks upon the weather.

      Bad time o' the year for going about, said the latter, though I s'pose if you can eat and drink as much as you want it don't matter. I s'pose you mightn't be a conjurer from London, sir?

      The traveller shook his head.

      "I was

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