Sailor’s Knots

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Sailormen ain’t wot you might call dandyfied as a rule, said the night-watchman, who had just had a passage of arms with a lighterman and been advised to let somebody else wash him and make a good job of it; they’ve got too much sense. They leave dressing up and making eyesores of theirselves to men wot ‘ave never smelt salt water; men wot drift up and down the river in lighters and get in everybody’s way. He glanced fiercely at the retreating figure of the lighterman, and, turning a deaf ear to a request for a lock of his hair to patch a favorite doormat with, resumed with much vigor his task of sweeping up the litter. * Included in this volume are Jacobs’s classic sea stories Deserted,
Homeward Bound,
Self-Help,
Sentence Deferred,
'Matrimonial Openings,’
Odd Man Out,
‘The Toll-House,’
Peter’s Pence,
The Head of the Family,
Prize Money
Double Dealing, and Keeping Up Appearances.