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Title: Bindle
Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle

Author: Herbert Jenkins

Release Date: July 26, 2010 [EBook #33261]

Language: English

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BINDLE

SOME CHAPTERS IN THE
LIFE OF JOSEPH BINDLE

BY

HERBERT JENKINS

"Bindle is the greatest Cockney
that has come into being through
the medium of literature since
Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers"
MR. T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.

HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED

YORK STREET LONDON S.W.1

1916

A
HERBERT
JENKINS
BOOK

_Eighteenth Printing Completing 283,711 copies:_

Printed In Great Britain at the Athenaeum Printing Works, Redhill.

TO
MY MOTHER

WHO AS HER SON'S
BEST FRIEND IS
PROBABLY HIS
WORST CRITIC

FOREWORD

Some years ago I wrote an account of one of Bindle's "little jokes," as
he calls them, which appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_. As a result
the late Mr. William Blackwood on more than one occasion expressed the
opinion that a book about Bindle should be written, and suggested that
I offer it to him for publication. Other and weighty matters
intervened, and Bindle passed out of my thoughts.

Last year, however, the same suggestion was made from other quarters,
and in one instance was backed up by a material reasoning that I found
irresistible.

A well-known author once assured me that in his opinion the publisher
who wrote books should, like the double-headed ass and five-legged
sheep, be painlessly put to death, preferably by the Society of
Authors, as a menace to what he called "the legitimate."

Authors have been known to become their own publishers, generally, I
believe, to their lasting regret; why, therefore, should not a
publisher become his own author? At least he would find some
difficulty in proving to the world that his failure was due to
under-advertising.

H. J.

12, ARUNDEL PLACE,
HAYMARKET, LONDON, S.W.

_August_, 1916.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

FOREWORD
I. THE BINDLES A