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Three Men on the Bummel

CHAPTER I
10/27

Terms, 10 guineas a week .-- Apply Pertwee and Co., 3A Bucklersbury.
It had seemed to me like the answer to a prayer.

"The new copper" did not interest me; what little washing we might want could wait, I thought.
But the "pianette by Woffenkoff" sounded alluring.

I pictured Ethelbertha playing in the evening--something with a chorus, in which, perhaps, the crew, with a little training, might join--while our moving home bounded, "greyhound-like," over the silvery billows.
I took a cab and drove direct to 3A Bucklersbury.

Mr.Pertwee was an unpretentious-looking gentleman, who had an unostentatious office on the third floor.

He showed me a picture in water-colours of the _Rogue_ flying before the wind.


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