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    The Money Box Odd Craft, Part 1.
    The Money Box Odd Craft, Part 1.
    The Money Box Odd Craft, Part 1.
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    The Money Box Odd Craft, Part 1.

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

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Money Box Odd Craft, Part 1. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Money Box, by W.W. Jacobs

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Money Box

      Odd Craft, Part 1.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 29, 2004 [EBook #12201]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MONEY BOX ***

      Produced by David Widger

      1909

      PART 1.

      List of Illustrations

      Sailormen Are Not Good 'ands at Saving Money As a Rule.

      I Ain't Hit a Man for Five Years, 'e Ses, Still Dancing Up and Down."

      'Wot's This For?' Ses Ginger.

      They Put Old Isaac's Clothes up for Fifteen Shillings.

      Old Isaac Kept 'em There for Three Days.

      THE MONEY-BOX

      Sailormen are not good 'ands at saving money as a rule, said the night-watchman, as he wistfully toyed with a bad shilling on his watch-chain, though to 'ear 'em talk of saving when they're at sea and there isn't a pub within a thousand miles of 'em, you might think different.

      It ain't for the want of trying either with some of 'em, and I've known men do all sorts o' things as soon as they was paid off, with a view to saving. I knew one man as used to keep all but a shilling or two in a belt next to 'is skin so that he couldn't get at it easy, but it was all no good. He was always running short in the most inconvenient places. I've seen 'im wriggle for five minutes right off, with a tramcar conductor standing over 'im and the other people in the tram reading their papers with one eye and watching him with the other.

      Ginger Dick and Peter Russet—two men I've spoke of to you afore—tried to save their money once. They'd got so sick and tired of spending it all in p'r'aps a week or ten days arter coming ashore, and 'aving to go to sea agin sooner than they

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