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    Dixon's Return Odd Craft, Part 10.
    Dixon's Return Odd Craft, Part 10.
    Dixon's Return Odd Craft, Part 10.
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    Dixon's Return Odd Craft, Part 10.

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

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Dixon's Return Odd Craft, Part 10. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dixon's Return, by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: Dixon's Return

      Odd Craft, Part 10.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12210]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIXON'S RETURN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      1909

      PART 10.

      List of Illustrations

      Talking About Eddication, Said the Night-watchman.

      'Go and Sleep Somewhere Else, Then,' Ses Dixon.

      You'd Better Go Upstairs and Put on Some Decent Clothes.

      Charlie Had 'ad As Much As 'e Wanted and Was Lying on The Sea-chest.

      The Way She Answered Her 'usband Was a Pleasure to Every Married Man in the Bar.

      DIXON'S RETURN

      Talking about eddication, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, the finest eddication you can give a lad is to send 'im to sea. School is all right up to a certain p'int, but arter that comes the sea. I've been there myself and I know wot I'm talking about. All that I am I owe to 'aving been to sea.

      There's a saying that boys will be boys. That's all right till they go to sea, and then they 'ave to be men, and good men too. They get knocked about a bit, o' course, but that's all part o' the eddication, and when they get bigger they pass the eddication they've received on to other boys smaller than wot they are. Arter I'd been at sea a year I spent all my fust time ashore going round and looking for boys wot 'ad knocked me about afore I sailed, and there was only one out o' the whole lot that I wished I 'adn't found.

      Most people, o' course, go to sea as boys or else not at all, but I mind one chap as was pretty near thirty years old when 'e started. It's a

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