SAILORS' KNOTS

By W.W. Jacobs

1909

Part 3. List of Illustrations

[ "''E Comes Along and Hits You over Your Tenderest Corn With a Oar.'" ] [ "Mr. Cubbins Winked at 'im and Tapped 'is Nose." ] [ "Let Drive With All his Might in 'is Face. " ] [ "'Wot on Earth's the Matter, Ginger?'" ]

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SELF-HELP

The night-watchman sat brooding darkly over life and its troubles. A shooting corn on the little toe of his left foot, and a touch of liver, due, he was convinced, to the unlawful cellar work of the landlord of the Queen's Head, had induced in him a vein of profound depression. A discarded boot stood by his side, and his gray-stockinged foot protruded over the edge of the jetty until a passing waterman gave it a playful rap with his oar. A subsequent inquiry as to the price of pigs' trotters fell on ears rendered deaf by suffering.