Category: Short Stories
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902
Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in a certain Australian coasting steamer more than twenty years before--he as chief officer and I as passenger; and her shipwre...