Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 281W. Blackwood, 1957 - England |
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Page 210
... insisted on their keeping watch - and - watch in pairs , but , as so often happens , there had been too little sleep during the day . They had been driving hard to get back , for Charles was due in London in three days ' time .
... insisted on their keeping watch - and - watch in pairs , but , as so often happens , there had been too little sleep during the day . They had been driving hard to get back , for Charles was due in London in three days ' time .
Page 211
By the time he had finished . and was back in his bunk , half an hour of his watch below had passed . Now that , ' John thought , though he knew no good would come of saying so , ' is what I would call a work of supererogation .
By the time he had finished . and was back in his bunk , half an hour of his watch below had passed . Now that , ' John thought , though he knew no good would come of saying so , ' is what I would call a work of supererogation .
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Doc Heenan , we found , had got a watch from somewhere . It did not go and , like the church - clock at Grantchester , was arrested permanently at some improbable hour you fancied . like ten to three , an unlikely TABLE COMPANIONS 223.
Doc Heenan , we found , had got a watch from somewhere . It did not go and , like the church - clock at Grantchester , was arrested permanently at some improbable hour you fancied . like ten to three , an unlikely TABLE COMPANIONS 223.
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Contents
JANUARY 1957 | 1 |
A CUT ABOVE THE AVERAGE | 17 |
THE STONEFISH ON THE TRIDENT | 27 |
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