“ A night-watchman can't be too careful, and I knew that it 'ud be all over Wapping next morning that I 'ad been dancing to a tuppenny-ha'penny mouth-orgin played by a ship's cook. A man that does 'is dooty always has a lot of people ready to believe the worst of 'im. I went back into the dark office and waited, and by and by I 'eard them coming along to the gate and patting 'im on the back and saying he ought to be in a pantermime instead o' wasting 'is time night-watching. He left 'em at the gate, and then 'e came into the office smiling as if he'd done something clever. ”
W. W. Jacobs
Summary
“His Other Self”, is a work by W. W. Jacobs. It explores elements such as ad, arter and arf.
Quotes from His Other Self (W. W. Jacobs)
“ If that don't fetch 'em I'll give up the stage and grow cabbages." "Make yourself like me?" I ses. "Why, you're no more like me than I'm like a sea-sick monkey." "Not so much," he ses. "That's where the art comes in." ”
“ It must be very 'ard to have another man going about with your face on 'is shoulders, and getting it into trouble. It was a year or two ago now. I was sitting one evening at the gate, smoking a pipe and looking at a newspaper I 'ad found in the office, when I see a gentleman coming along from the swing-bridge. Well-dressed, clean-shaved chap 'e was, smoking a cigarette. He was walking slow and looking about 'im casual-like, until his eyes fell on me, when he gave a perfect jump of surprise, and, arter looking at me very 'ard, walked on a little way and then turned back. ”
