BOOK 2
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN
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["Cheer up," said Mr George Brown] [Mr Gibbs, with his back against the post, fought for nearly half an hour] ["Where is he?" she gasped] ["Gone!" exclaimed both gentlemen "Where?"] |
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.