The Head of the Family / Sailor's Knots, Part 9.

by W. W. Jacobs

SAILORS' KNOTS

By W.W. Jacobs

1909

Part 9.

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List of Illustrations

[ "After Some Years Spent in Long Voyages" ] [ "Then and There Mr. Letts's Mind Was Made Up. ] [ "A Disagreeable-looking Man Was Eying Them in Some Astonishment from the Doorway." ] [ "What's Mine is Mother's." ]

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THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY

Mr. Letts had left his ship by mutual arrangement, and the whole of the crew had mustered to see him off and to express their sense of relief at his departure. After some years spent in long voyages, he had fancied a trip on a coaster as a change, and, the schooner Curlew having no use for a ship's carpenter, had shipped as cook. He had done his best, and the unpleasant epithets that followed him along the quay at Dunchurch as he followed in the wake of his sea-chest were the result. Master and mate nodded in grim appreciation of the crew's efforts.