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    Good Intentions Ship's Company, Part 3.
    Good Intentions Ship's Company, Part 3.
    Good Intentions Ship's Company, Part 3.
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    Good Intentions Ship's Company, Part 3.

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

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Good Intentions Ship's Company, Part 3. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Good Intentions, by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: Good Intentions

      Ship's Company, Part 3.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10563]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOOD INTENTIONS ***

      Produced by David Widger

      BOOK 3

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN

      GOOD INTENTIONS

      Jealousy; that's wot it is, said the night-watchman, trying to sneer— pure jealousy. He had left his broom for a hurried half-pint at the Bull's Head—left it leaning in a negligent attitude against the warehouse-wall; now, lashed to the top of the crane at the jetty end, it pointed its soiled bristles towards the evening sky and defied capture.

      And I know who it is, and why 'e's done it, he continued. "Fust and last, I don't suppose I was talking to the gal for more than ten minutes, and 'arf of that was about the weather.

      "I don't suppose anybody 'as suffered more from jealousy than wot I 'ave: Other people's jealousy, I mean. Ever since I was married the missis has been setting traps for me, and asking people to keep an eye on me. I blacked one of the eyes once—like a fool—and the chap it belonged to made up a tale about me that I ain't lived down yet.

      "Years ago, when I was out with the missis one evening, I saved a gal's life for her. She slipped as she was getting off a bus, and I caught 'er just in time. Fine strapping gal she was, and afore I could get my balance we 'ad danced

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