Description:General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: T.Y. Crowell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. NEW NEIGHBORS. While the boys were standing and peering in vain into the gloom for some hopeful sound or sight to relieve their suspense, something bumped against Jeems's knees so hard from behind as almost to knock him off his feet. Then, as he was about to cry out in alarm, something warm was thrust into his hand, the touch of which he knew at once. " Why, Jeff, where did you come from, and where has the boat gone to ? " was Jeems's greeting. "Is that Jeff, sure enough?" Tim asked; then as the dog sprang up and put both paws against Tim's breast, and insisted on licking him in the face, " I know it's you now, old fellow, without your slobbering all over me. Down with you, sir ; down, I say ! " " I'm glad Jeff lias come," said Jeems; " for if a feller's got to sleep out doors, he's warm to sleep next to, an' makes good company." " We've got to sleep somewhere, that's a dead go," Tim bethought himself on hearing Jeems's remark. "There's the dime lodging boat; I've got enough chink to put us through." "I don't want to go to the dime lodging boat," Jeems objected: " the men there drink and swear so, and one of them wanted to make me take a drink once." " Well, it wouldn't a-killed you if you hadn't a-druuk too much. And swearing at a feller doesn't hurt, doesit ? I don't care how much they swears at me if I can only keep out of the reach of their fists and boot-toes. You can cuss back ; but you're such a queer little chap. If you don't want to go there, why, that settles it. I know where there's an elegant cellarway where they throw old papers, and I d...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jo-Boat Boys. To get started finding The Jo-Boat Boys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: T.Y. Crowell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. NEW NEIGHBORS. While the boys were standing and peering in vain into the gloom for some hopeful sound or sight to relieve their suspense, something bumped against Jeems's knees so hard from behind as almost to knock him off his feet. Then, as he was about to cry out in alarm, something warm was thrust into his hand, the touch of which he knew at once. " Why, Jeff, where did you come from, and where has the boat gone to ? " was Jeems's greeting. "Is that Jeff, sure enough?" Tim asked; then as the dog sprang up and put both paws against Tim's breast, and insisted on licking him in the face, " I know it's you now, old fellow, without your slobbering all over me. Down with you, sir ; down, I say ! " " I'm glad Jeff lias come," said Jeems; " for if a feller's got to sleep out doors, he's warm to sleep next to, an' makes good company." " We've got to sleep somewhere, that's a dead go," Tim bethought himself on hearing Jeems's remark. "There's the dime lodging boat; I've got enough chink to put us through." "I don't want to go to the dime lodging boat," Jeems objected: " the men there drink and swear so, and one of them wanted to make me take a drink once." " Well, it wouldn't a-killed you if you hadn't a-druuk too much. And swearing at a feller doesn't hurt, doesit ? I don't care how much they swears at me if I can only keep out of the reach of their fists and boot-toes. You can cuss back ; but you're such a queer little chap. If you don't want to go there, why, that settles it. I know where there's an elegant cellarway where they throw old papers, and I d...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jo-Boat Boys. To get started finding The Jo-Boat Boys, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.