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18 mars 2017
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9781787242166
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English
H. G. Wells
Jimmy Goggles The God
Fantastica
Published by Fantastica
This Edition first published in 2017
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ISBN: 9781787242166
Contents
JIMMY GOGGLES THE GOD
JIMMY GOGGLES THE GOD
“I t isn’t every one who’s been a god,” said the sunburnt man. “But it’s happened to me-among other things.”
I intimated my sense of his condescension.
“It don’t leave much for ambition, does it?” said the sunburnt man.
“I was one of those men who were saved from the Ocean Pioneer. Gummy! how time flies! It’s twenty years ago. I doubt if you’ll remember anything of the Ocean Pioneer?”
The name was familiar, and I tried to recall when and where I had read it. The Ocean Pioneer? “Something about gold dust,” I said vaguely, “but the precise-”
“That’s it,” he said. “In a beastly little channel she hadn’t no business in-dodging pirates. It was before they’d put the kybosh on that business. And there’d been volcanoes or something and all the rocks was wrong. There’s places about by Soona where you fair have to follow the rocks about to see where they’re going next. Down she went in twenty fathoms before you could have dealt for whist, with fifty thousand pounds worth of gold aboard, it was said, in one form or another.”
“Survivors?”
“Three.”
“I remember the case now,” I said. “There was something about salvage--”
