. Captains all. Old Sam crept back ome like a man in a dream, with abag of oranges he didnt want. Cattains All] {Page 33 CAPTAINS ALL By W. W. JACOBS WITH DECORATIONS AND TEN FULLPAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILL OWEN LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW1905 £uiU- & Tatncr The Sd-jjood Printing IVorks Frame and London Li 6^^ I CONTENTS I Captains All . • • • II The Boatswains Mate III The Nest Egg • • • IV The Constables Move V Bobs Redemptio] VI Over THE Side s PAGE 35 67 93 121 149 Sg^rgP^ 6 CONTENTS PAGE VII Four Pigeons ...••• 167 VIII The Temptation of Samuel Burge . 191 IX The Madness
. Captains all. Old Sam crept back ome like a man in a dream, with abag of oranges he didnt want. Cattains All] {Page 33 CAPTAINS ALL By W. W. JACOBS WITH DECORATIONS AND TEN FULLPAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILL OWEN LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW1905 £uiU- & Tatncr The Sd-jjood Printing IVorks Frame and London Li 6^^ I CONTENTS I Captains All . • • • II The Boatswains Mate III The Nest Egg • • • IV The Constables Move V Bobs Redemptio] VI Over THE Side s PAGE 35 67 93 121 149 Sg^rgP^ 6 CONTENTS PAGE VII Four Pigeons ...••• 167 VIII The Temptation of Samuel Burge . 191 IX The Madness of Mr. Lister . . 219 X The White Cat 243 CAPTAINSALL. Captains All T7VERY saflorman grumbles about the sea,-*^ said the night-watchman, human nature to grumble, and I sposethey keep on grumbling and sticking to itbecause there aint much else they can not many shore-going berths that asailorman is fit for, and those that they are—such as a night-watchmans, for instance—wants such a good character that theres fewas are equal to it. Sometimes they get things to do ashore. Iknew one man that took up butchering, ande did very well at it till the police took himup. Another man I knew gave up the sea tomarry a washerwoman, and they hadnt beenmarried six months afore she died, and backhe ad to go to sea agin, pore chap. A man who used to grumble awful about 10 CAPTAINS ALL the sea was old Sam Small—a man Ive spokeof to you before. To hear im go on aboutthe sea, arter he ad spent four or five monthsmoney in a fortnight, was artbreaking. Heused to ask us wot was going to happen to imin his old age, and when we poin
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