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Excerpt from Dialstone LaneYou said to my husband: 'the fair Emily is yours The captain walked home.deep in thought. Mrs. Stobell 'it wouldn't be nice to be buried at sea,' remarked Mr. Chalk He pointed to a thin, dismal-looking man There's more in this than meets the eye Purchasing firearms, with which he practised in the gar den Mr. Chalk stood by a pile of luggage, discoursing to an admiring circle of friends A slight nautical roll 'is it mutiny?' he faltered She enacted, to the great admiration of a small crowd the part of a human semaphore 'mr. Tredgold said a sharp voice fiom above 'i never want to hear another word about that treasure as long as I live' He aimed hastily at a face which appeared there 'it's pointing towards me,' said the mate He felt less heroic next morning The captain and Mr. Duckett discussed with great nestness the nature of the secret 'i found 'im inside the Horse and Groom,' he said Selina was standing in front of Mr. Tasker in the man ner of a small hen defending an overgrown chicken.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"He keeps his characters at cross purposes with one another until it seems impossible that he should ever be able to straighten out their affairs. But he is as ingenious as he is funny, and the climax to his farce is in truth nothing less than masterly--it is so unexpected, so natural, and so uproariously funny." -The New York Tribune Humor is the single effect W. W. Jacobs utilized in his dockside stories, based on the lives of working-class people before socialism and war changed the British social structure. He used exaggeration and overstatement to create laughter-provoking farce. However, his stories were not satire by definition as he made no attempt to reform society or his characters' ridiculous and entertaining behavior. Jacobs uses a third-person observer as narrator. For a mug of beer, the Nightwatchman, a retired seaman, or the Old Timer at the Cauliflower Inn will entertain travelers with their tales. Dialogue includes just enough Cockney dialect to add authentic speech patterns without confusing the reader. Nearly half of Jacobs's stories feature the escapades of sailors on schooners going up or down the Thames estuary or in places like Wapping. The rest feature villagers in towns like Claybury. He was especially adept at describing funny looking or eccentric characters. Female characters are either pretty, deceitful flirts or bossy old women

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