Seated on his wharf, the night-watchman explains that a sailorman is safest at sea, and then proves it. These stories follow seamen home with their pay, into marriages, schemes, sham illnesses and a ghost of Sam’s own invention, and out again poorer and rarely wiser.
Some of the best comic short fiction of the Thames waterfront, by the writer of The Monkey’s Paw. Download the free EPUB.