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Keeping Watch Night Watches, Part 2. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: Keeping Watch
Night Watches, Part 2.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: April 26, 2004 [EBook #12152]
Language: English
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KEEPING WATCH
Human natur'!
said the night-watchman, gazing fixedly at a pretty girl in a passing waterman's skiff. Human natur'!
He sighed, and, striking a match, applied it to his pipe and sat smoking thoughtfully.
The young fellow is pretending that his arm is at the back of her by accident,
he continued; and she's pretending not to know that it's there. When he's allowed to put it round 'er waist whenever he wishes, he won't want to do it. She's artful enough to know that, and that's why they are all so stand-offish until the thing is settled. She'll move forward 'arf an inch presently, and 'arf a minute arterwards she'll lean back agin without thinking. She's a nice-looking gal, and what she can see in a tailor's dummy like that, I can't think.
He leaned back on his box and, folding his arms, emitted a cloud of smoke.
"Human natur's a funny thing. I've seen a lot of it in my time, and if I was to 'ave my life all over agin I expect I should be just as silly as them two in the skiff. I've known the time when I would spend money as free over a gal as I would over myself. I on'y wish I'd got all the money now that I've spent on peppermint
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