Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 15 September 1935) was a Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. He is known for his novel for youth called Her Benny (1879), which was a best-seller.
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WELL, Jack, and what have you been doing with yourself to-day?
Well, my most affectionate pater, said the young man, with a drawl and a yawn, I have been doing my level best, as the Yankees would say, to kill time.
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WELL, Jack, and what have you been doing with yourself to-day?
Well, my most affectionate pater, said the young man, with a drawl and a yawn, I have been doing my level best, as the Yankees would say, to kill time.
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