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Title: The Substitute
Deep Waters, Part 9.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: March 6, 2004 [EBook #11479]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SUBSTITUTE ***
Produced by David Widger
DEEP WATERS
By W.W. JACOBS
THE SUBSTITUTE
The night watchman had just returned to the office fire after leaving it to attend a ring at the wharf bell. He sat for some time puffing fiercely at his pipe and breathing heavily.
Boys!
he said, at last. "That's the third time this week, and yet if I was to catch one and skin 'im alive I suppose I should get into trouble over it. Even 'is own father and mother would make a fuss, most like. Some people have boys, and other people 'ave the trouble of 'em. Our street's full of 'em, and the way they carry on would make a monkey-'ouse ashamed of itself. The man next door to me's got seven of 'em, and when I spoke to 'im friendly about it over a pint one night, he put the blame on 'is wife.
"The worst boy I ever knew used to be office-boy in this 'ere office, and I can't understand now why I wasn't 'ung for him. Undersized little chap he was, with a face the colour o' bad pie-crust, and two little black eyes like shoe-buttons. To see 'im with his little white cuffs, and a stand-up collar, and a little black bow, and a little bowler-'at, was enough to make a cat laugh. I told 'im so one day, and arter that we knew where we was. Both of us.
"By rights he ought to 'ave left the office at six—just my time for coming on. As it was, he used to stay late, purtending to
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