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"Drink that up," he ses, 'anding it to me; "but fust of all give me the box, so as I can pay for it." I put my 'and in my pocket. Then I put it in the other one, and arter that I stood staring at George Tebb and shaking all over. "Wot's the matter? Wot are you looking like that for?" he ses. "It must ha' been them two," I ses, choking.
"There's one or two 'ands on the ship, and they won't let anybody run away with it." From wot he said I thought the pub was quite close, but instead o' that I should think we walked pretty nearly a mile afore we got there. Nice snug place it was, and the beer was all right, although, as I told George Tebb, it didn't seem to me any better than the stuff at the Bear's Head.
"There's one or two 'ands on the ship, and they won't let anybody run away with it." From wot he said I thought the pub was quite close, but instead o' that I should think we walked pretty nearly a mile afore we got there. Nice snug place it was, and the beer was all right, although, as I told George Tebb, it didn't seem to me any better than the stuff at the Bear's Head.
I paid the fust five bob to George Tebb the next time the ship was up, and arter biting 'em over and over agin and then ringing 'em on the deck 'e took the other chaps round to the Bear's Head. "P'r'aps it's just as well it's 'appened," he ses. "Five bob a week for nearly two years ain't to be sneezed at. It's slow, but it's sure."
I felt a little bit damp and chilly, but beer is like sea-water you don't catch cold through it and I sat down agin to wait for George Tebb. He came in smiling and out 'o breath in about ten minutes' time, with the key in 'is 'and, and as soon as I told 'im wot had 'appened to me with the beer he turned to the landlord and ordered me six o' rum 'ot at once.
I felt a little bit damp and chilly, but beer is like sea-water you don't catch cold through it and I sat down agin to wait for George Tebb. He came in smiling and out 'o breath in about ten minutes' time, with the key in 'is 'and, and as soon as I told 'im wot had 'appened to me with the beer he turned to the landlord and ordered me six o' rum 'ot at once.
I just went on with my work as if 'e wasn't there. I suppose they 'ad been in the sulks about a month, and I was sitting 'ere one evening getting my breath arter a couple o' hours' 'ard work, when one of 'em, George Tebb by name, came off the ship and nodded to me as he passed. "Evening, Bill," he ses. "Evening," I ses, rather stiff. "I wanted a word with you, Bill," he ses, in a low voice.
I paid the fust five bob to George Tebb the next time the ship was up, and arter biting 'em over and over agin and then ringing 'em on the deck 'e took the other chaps round to the Bear's Head. "P'r'aps it's just as well it's 'appened," he ses. "Five bob a week for nearly two years ain't to be sneezed at. It's slow, but it's sure."
"Drink that up," he ses, 'anding it to me; "but fust of all give me the box, so as I can pay for it." I put my 'and in my pocket. Then I put it in the other one, and arter that I stood staring at George Tebb and shaking all over. "Wot's the matter? Wot are you looking like that for?" he ses. "It must ha' been them two," I ses, choking.
H. W. Thomas, Isabella Beecher Hooker, William Tebb, Esq., of London, etc. <b>KOEGEL, LINDA.</b> Born at The Hague. A pupil of Stauffer-Bern in Berlin and of Herterich in Munich. Her attachment to impressionism leads this artist to many experiments in color or, as one critic wrote, "to play with color."
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