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    The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2.
    The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2.
    The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2.
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    The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2.

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      The Boatswain's Mate Captains All, Book 2. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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      Title: The Boatswain's Mate

      Captains All, Book 2.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11182]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOATSWAIN'S MATE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      CAPTAINS ALL

      By W.W. Jacobs

      Book 2.

      List of Illustrations

      THE BOATSWAIN'S MATE

      Mr. George Benn, retired boat-swain, sighed noisily, and with a despondent gesture, turned to the door and stood with the handle in his hand; Mrs. Waters, sitting behind the tiny bar in a tall Windsor-chair, eyed him with some heat.

      My feelings'll never change, said the boatswain.

      Nor mine either, said the landlady, sharply. It's a strange thing, Mr. Benn, but you always ask me to marry you after the third mug.

      It's only to get my courage up, pleaded the boatswain. Next time I'll do it afore I 'ave a drop; that'll prove to you I'm in earnest.

      He stepped outside and closed the door before the landlady could make a selection from the many retorts that crowded to her lips.

      After the cool bar, with its smell of damp saw-dust, the road seemed hot and dusty; but the boatswain, a prey to gloom natural to a man whose hand has been refused five times in a fortnight, walked on unheeding. His steps lagged, but his brain was active.

      He walked for two miles deep in thought, and then coming to a shady bank took a seat upon an inviting piece of turf and lit his pipe. The heat and the drowsy hum of bees made him nod; his pipe hung from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes closed.

      He opened them at the sound of approaching footsteps, and, feeling in his pocket for matches, gazed lazily at the

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