Dixon's Return

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In Dixon's Return, by W. W. Jacobs, a night-watchman says thoughtfully that the finest eddication you can give a lad is to send 'im to sea. A speaker recalls one chap who was pretty near thirty years old when he started, and who was landlord of a public-house in Wapping called the Blue Lion. Mrs. Dixon soon began to lead him a terrible life, always throwing his meekness and mildness up into his face.

Charlie Burge came in as barman, and a month or two later his brother Bob, who had been spending a lot of time looking for work instead of doing it, came too. The text says it must have been pretty near four years since George Dixon had run off to sea. A man who has come in tells Charlie I've come back, and Charlie answers Wot, George! Dixon says he is paying off, says You and Charlie'll go now, and says the old man can stay on for a month to give him time to look round.

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W. W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs (William Wymark Jacobs, 1863 to 1943) was an English writer born in London, the son of a wharf manager. He drew on that dockside world for comic stories of sailors and night watchmen, though he is best remembered for the chilling tale "The Monkey's Paw."