BOOK 3
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN
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["Why was wimmen made? Wot good are they?"] ["As far as I'm concerned he can take this lady to a music-'all every night"] |
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.