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    His Other Self Night Watches, Part 10.
    His Other Self Night Watches, Part 10.
    His Other Self Night Watches, Part 10.
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    His Other Self Night Watches, Part 10.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs and Stanley Davis

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      His Other Self Night Watches, Part 10. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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      Title: His Other Self

      Night Watches, Part 10.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 26, 2004 [EBook #12160]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS OTHER SELF ***

      Produced by David Widger

      HIS OTHER SELF

      They're as like as two peas, him and 'is brother, said the night- watchman, gazing blandly at the indignant face of the lighterman on the barge below; and the on'y way I know this one is Sam is because Bill don't use bad langwidge. Twins they are, but the likeness is only outside; Bill's 'art is as white as snow.

      He cut off a plug of tobacco, and, placing it in his cheek, waited expectantly.

      White as snow, he repeated.

      That's me, said the lighterman, as he pushed his unwieldy craft from the jetty. I'll tell Sam your opinion of 'im. So long.

      The watchman went a shade redder than usual. That's twins all over, he said, sourly, always deceiving people. It's Bill arter all, and, instead of hurting 'is feelings, I've just been flattering of 'im up.

      It ain't the fust time I've 'ad trouble over a likeness. I've been a twin myself in a manner o' speaking. It didn't last long, but it lasted long enough for me to always be sorry for twins, and to make a lot of allowance for them. It must be very 'ard to have another man going about with your face on 'is shoulders, and getting it into trouble.

      It was a year or two ago now. I was sitting

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