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    The Persecution of Bob Pretty Odd Craft, Part 9.
    The Persecution of Bob Pretty Odd Craft, Part 9.
    The Persecution of Bob Pretty Odd Craft, Part 9.
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    The Persecution of Bob Pretty Odd Craft, Part 9.

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

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Persecution of Bob Pretty Odd Craft, Part 9. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Persecution of Bob Pretty, by W.W. Jacobs

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

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      Title: The Persecution of Bob Pretty

      Odd Craft, Part 9.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12209]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PERSECUTION OF BOB PRETTY ***

      Produced by David Widger

      1909

      PART 9.

      List of Illustrations

      Poaching, Said the Old Man, ain't Wot It Used to Be In These 'ere Parts.

      I Shall 'ave 'em Afore Long,' Ses Mr. Cutts.

      Three Men Burst out O' the Plantation.

      Bob Pretty Pointed With 'is Finger Exactly Where 'e Thought It Was.

      You Ought to Be More Careful, Ses Bob.

      THE PERSECUTION OF BOB PRETTY

      The old man sat on his accustomed bench outside the Cauliflower. A generous measure of beer stood in a blue and white jug by his elbow, and little wisps of smoke curled slowly upward from the bowl of his churchwarden pipe. The knapsacks of two young men lay where they were flung on the table, and the owners, taking a noon-tide rest, turned a polite, if bored, ear to the reminiscences of grateful old age.

      Poaching, said the old man, who had tried topics ranging from early turnips to horseshoeing—poaching ain't wot it used to be in these 'ere parts. Nothing is like it used to be, poaching nor anything else; but that there man you might ha' noticed as went out about ten minutes ago and called me Old Truthfulness as 'e passed is the worst one I know. Bob Pretty 'is name is, and of all the sly, artful, deceiving men that ever lived in Claybury 'e is the worst—never did a honest day's work in 'is life and never wanted the price of a glass of ale.

      Bob Pretty's worst time was just after old Squire Brown died. The old squire couldn't afford to preserve much,

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