Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221William Blackwood, 1927 - England |
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... ship invalidated , and the Lord knows what else . You've got to have some mighty good reasons be- fore you dare deviate - and what reasons could I give ? I should have looked pretty blow- ing in somewhere , and saying I'd come because I ...
... ship invalidated , and the Lord knows what else . You've got to have some mighty good reasons be- fore you dare deviate - and what reasons could I give ? I should have looked pretty blow- ing in somewhere , and saying I'd come because I ...
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... ship arrives she's going to be filled with police . Chinese police . And who'll collect that money then ? Why , the police ; and you can't tell me those Small Knife blighters are going to wait for that . No , sir ! As sure as my name's ...
... ship arrives she's going to be filled with police . Chinese police . And who'll collect that money then ? Why , the police ; and you can't tell me those Small Knife blighters are going to wait for that . No , sir ! As sure as my name's ...
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... ship who could talk Chinese , and I couldn't find one coolie out of the lot who understood Eng- lish . So there we were , you see , with the ship a regular powder magazine , a sleeping vol- cano and a tower of Babel all rolled into one ...
... ship who could talk Chinese , and I couldn't find one coolie out of the lot who understood Eng- lish . So there we were , you see , with the ship a regular powder magazine , a sleeping vol- cano and a tower of Babel all rolled into one ...
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... ship cleaned out , and then , as likely as not , it would be our turn . If I could only have talked the lingo I might have done something . Roused up the rest of the Chinks , perhaps , and made ' em set about those Small Knife birds ...
... ship cleaned out , and then , as likely as not , it would be our turn . If I could only have talked the lingo I might have done something . Roused up the rest of the Chinks , perhaps , and made ' em set about those Small Knife birds ...
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... ship and sending him off to South Africa . think the man must just have been a natural born kicker . I mean , if he saw any dirty work going on he was the sort that couldn't rest unless he'd done his darndest to clean things up . He ...
... ship and sending him off to South Africa . think the man must just have been a natural born kicker . I mean , if he saw any dirty work going on he was the sort that couldn't rest unless he'd done his darndest to clean things up . He ...
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