Mr. Scutts comes home in a cab, apparently near death, and his wife’s alarm is only the beginning of the trouble. These stories of riverside London and its villages follow henpecked husbands, schemers, quarrelsome neighbours and sailors on shore leave, with Jacobs’s elderly night-watchman spinning several of the yarns on the wharf.
Dry, perfectly timed humour from the master of the comic sailor’s tale. Download the free EPUB.