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Title: A Spirit of Avarice
Odd Craft, Part 11.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12211]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SPIRIT OF AVARICE ***
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PART 11.
List of Illustrations
Mr. John Blows Stood Listening to the Foreman With an Air Of Lofty Disdain.
'Joe!' Shouted Mr. Blows. 'j-o-o-oe!'
'They Dragged the River,' Resumed his Wife, 'and Found The Cap.'
In a Pitiable State of 'nerves' he Sat at the Extreme End Of a Bench.
Mr. Blows, Conscious of the Strength Of his Position, Walked up to Them.
A SPIRIT OF AVARICE
Mr. John Blows stood listening to the foreman with an air of lofty disdain. He was a free-born Englishman, and yet he had been summarily paid off at eleven o'clock in the morning and told that his valuable services would no longer be required. More than that, the foreman had passed certain strictures upon his features which, however true they might be, were quite irrelevant to the fact that Mr. Blows had been discovered slumbering in a shed when he should have been laying bricks.
Take your ugly face off these 'ere works,
said the foreman; take it 'ome and bury it in the back-yard. Anybody'll be glad to lend you a spade.
Mr. Blows, in a somewhat fluent reply, reflected severely on the foreman's immediate ancestors, and the strange lack of good-feeling and public spirit they had exhibited by allowing him to grow up.
Take it 'ome and bury it,
said the foreman again. Not under any plants you've got a liking for.
I suppose,
said Mr. Blows, still referring to his foe's parents, and now endeavouring to make excuses for them—"I
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