On a Thames wharf the old night-watchman explains why every sailorman grumbles about the sea and then tells what happens when they try life ashore. Retired captains, boatswains and bargemen get tangled in schemes over pigeons, nest eggs and landladies, a constable moves house, and Samuel Burge is tempted, in stories where the joke always lands on the schemer.
Jacobs at his comic best, as reliably funny now as in 1905. Download the free EPUB.