EBOOK CAPTAINS ALL AND OTHERS ***
Produced by David Widger
CAPTAINS ALL
Complete
By W.W. Jacobs
Contents:
Captains All
The Boatswain's Mate
The Nest Egg
The Constable's Move
Bob's Redemption
Over The Side
The Four Pigeons
The Temptation Of Samuel Burge
The Madness Of Mr. Lister
The White Cat
CAPTAINS ALL
[Illustration: "Captains All."]
Every sailorman grumbles about the sea, said the night-watchman,
thoughtfully. It's human nature to grumble, and I s'pose they keep on
grumbling and sticking to it because there ain't much else they can do.
There's not many shore-going berths that a sailorman is fit for, and
those that they are--such as a night-watchman's, for instance--wants such
a good character that there's few as are to equal it.
Sometimes they get things to do ashore. I knew one man that took up
butchering, and 'e did very well at it till the police took him up.
Another man I knew gave up the sea to marry a washerwoman, and they
hadn't been married six months afore she died, and back he 'ad to go to
sea agin, pore chap.
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