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    Friends in Need Ship's Company, Part 2.
    Friends in Need Ship's Company, Part 2.
    Friends in Need Ship's Company, Part 2.
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    Friends in Need Ship's Company, Part 2.

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

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Friends in Need Ship's Company, Part 2. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Friends In Need, by W.W. Jacobs

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

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      Title: Friends In Need

      Ship's Company, Part 2.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10562]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRIENDS IN NEED ***

      Produced by David Widger

      BOOK 2

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN

      FRIENDS IN NEED

      R. Joseph Gibbs finished his half-pint in the private bar of the Red Lion with the slowness of a man unable to see where the next was coming from, and, placing the mug on the counter, filled his pipe from a small paper of tobacco and shook his head slowly at his companions.

      First I've 'ad since ten o'clock this morning, he said, in a hard voice.

      Cheer up, said Mr. George Brown.

      It can't go on for ever, said Bob Kidd, encouragingly.

      All I ask for—is work, said Mr. Gibbs, impressively. Not slavery, mind yer, but work.

      It's rather difficult to distinguish, said Mr. Brown.

      'Specially for some people, added Mr. Kidd.

      Go on, said Mr. Gibbs, gloomily. Go on. Stand a man 'arf a pint, and then go and hurt 'is feelings. Twice yesterday I wondered to myself what it would feel like to make a hole in the water.

      Lots o' chaps do do it, said Mr. Brown, musingly.

      And leave their wives and families to starve, said Mr.

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