SAILORS’ KNOTS
By W.W. Jacobs
1909
“Matrimonial openings”
Mr. Dowson sat by the kitchen fire smoking and turning
a docile and well-trained ear to the heated words
which fell fr...
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W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. H...
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Matrimonial Openings
W(illiam) W(ymark) Jacobs