Keeping Up Appearances / Sailor's Knots, Part 12.

by W. W. Jacobs

SAILORS' KNOTS

By W.W. Jacobs

1909

Part 12.

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List of Illustrations

[ "Superstitiousness is Right and Proper, to a Certain Extent." ] [ "Silas Was Very Perlite at Fust." ] [ "She Saw Silas Winch Standing at the Foot of The Bed." ] [ "With Tears in his Eyes 'e Emptied a Little Barrel O' Beer Down the Sink." ] [ "Other wimmen 'as to be satisfied looking at new 'ats." ]

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KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

"Everybody is superstitious," said the night-watchman, as he gave utterance to a series of chirruping endearments to a black cat with one eye that had just been using a leg of his trousers as a serviette; "if that cat 'ad stole some men's suppers they'd have acted foolish, and suffered for it all the rest of their lives."