Category: Short Stories
SMOKED SKIPPER A SAFETY MATCH A RASH EXPERIMENT THE CABIN PASSENGER “CHOICE SPIRITS” A DISCIPLINARIAN BROTHER HUTCHINS THE DISBURSEMENT SHEET RULE OF THREE PICKLED HERRING TWO OF A TRADE AN INTERVENTION THE GREY PARROT MONEY-CHANGERS THE LOST SHIP
“The very worst thing o’ the lot was the boat-drill. A chap might be sitting comfortably at his grub, or having a pipe in his bunk, when the bos’en’s whistle would scream out to...
4. Chapter 4The skipper told him, drawing back indignantly as the doctor suddenly sat down and burst into a hoarse roar of laughter. The unfeeling noise grated harshly on the sensitive ears...
10. Chapter 10He walked forward to end the discussion; but the skipper shouted out choice bits from time to time as they occurred to him, and sat steering and gibing, a gruesome picture of ve...
11. Chapter 11“It couldn’t lie,” shouted the engineer passionately, rising from his chair and pacing the room. “It’s your guilty conscience that’s made a coward of you. How dare you sell my p...
3. Chapter 3“Don’t say another word about that,” said the skipper impressively. “I’ve met your wife once or twice, George, an’ I must say that a nicer spoken woman, an’ a more well-be’aved...
8. Chapter 8A heartrending series of screams from the stow-aways rounded his sentence, screams which gave way to sustained sobbing, as the schooner, catching the wind, began to move through...
2. Chapter 2The skipper, who was standing with his back towards him, said nothing; but, peering about, stooped suddenly, and, with a sharp exclamation, picked up something from behind a dam...
9. Chapter 9“My bes’ respec’s, sir,” said George, allowing the liquor to roll slowly round his mouth before swallowing it. He sighed heavily, and, putting his empty glass on the table, allo...
1. Chapter 1SMOKED SKIPPER A SAFETY MATCH A RASH EXPERIMENT THE CABIN PASSENGER “CHOICE SPIRITS” A DISCIPLINARIAN BROTHER HUTCHINS THE DISBURSEMENT SHEET RULE OF THREE PICKLED HERRING TWO O...
5. Chapter 5“You’ll have a stone bottle o’ water to take down with you an’ some biskits,” replied Bill, “an’ of a night time we’ll hand you down some o’ that meat you’re so fond of. Hide ’e...
7. Chapter 7They followed the cook up on deck, and leaning over the side, gazed in a yearning fashion toward the place where they had last seen their benefactor. Then, with a sorrowful pres...
12. Chapter 12He rose to his feet, and stood swaying to and fro. His mother opened a door in the wall, and taking the lamp lighted him up the steep wooden staircase to the room he knew so wel...