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Jacobs + +Release Date: January 22, 2004 [EBook #10783] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELF-HELP *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<h1> + SAILORS' KNOTS +</h1> +<br /> +<h2> + By W.W. Jacobs +</h2> +<br /><br /> +<h3> + 1909 +</h3> + +<br><br> +<h2>Part 3.</h2> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="title (50K)" src="title.jpg" height="718" width="453" /> +</center> +<br><br> +<br /><br /> +<hr> +<br /><br /> + + +<h2>List of Illustrations</h2> +<br /> +<center> +<table summary=""> +<tr><td> + + + + + +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-9"> +"''E Comes Along and Hits You over Your Tenderest Corn +With a Oar.'" +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-10"> +"Mr. Cubbins Winked at 'im and Tapped 'is Nose." +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-11"> +"Let Drive With All his Might in 'is Face. " +</a></p> +<p class="toc"><a href="#image-12"> +"'Wot on Earth's the Matter, Ginger?'" +</a></p> + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + +<a name="2H_4_3"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h2> + SELF-HELP +</h2> +<p> + The night-watchman sat brooding darkly over life and its troubles. A + shooting corn on the little toe of his left foot, and a touch of liver, + due, he was convinced, to the unlawful cellar work of the landlord of the + Queen's Head, had induced in him a vein of profound depression. A + discarded boot stood by his side, and his gray-stockinged foot protruded + over the edge of the jetty until a passing waterman gave it a playful rap + with his oar. A subsequent inquiry as to the price of pigs' trotters + fell on ears rendered deaf by suffering. +</p> +<p> + "I might 'ave expected it," said the watchman, at last. "I done that + man—if you can call him a man—a kindness once, and this is my reward + for it. Do a man a kindness, and years arterwards 'e comes along and + hits you over your tenderest corn with a oar." +</p> +<a name="image-9"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="009.jpg" height="482" width="490" +alt="'''E Comes Along and Hits You over Your Tenderest Corn +With a Oar.'' +"> +</center> +<!--IMAGE END--> +<p> + He took up his boot, and, inserting his foot with loving care, stooped + down and fastened the laces. +</p> +<p> + Do a man a kindness, he continued, assuming a safer posture, and 'e tries + to borrow money off of you; do a woman a kindness and she thinks you want + tr marry 'er; do an animal a kindness and it tries to bite you—same as a + horse bit a sailorman I knew once, when 'e sat on its head to 'elp it get + up. He sat too far for'ard, pore chap. +</p> +<p> + Kindness never gets any thanks. I remember a man whose pal broke 'is leg + while they was working together unloading a barge; and he went off to + break the news to 'is pal's wife. A kind-'earted man 'e was as ever you + see, and, knowing 'ow she would take on when she 'eard the news, he told + her fust of all that 'er husband was killed. She took on like a mad + thing, and at last, when she couldn't do anything more and 'ad quieted + down a bit, he told 'er that it was on'y a case of a broken leg, thinking + that 'er joy would be so great that she wouldn't think anything of that. + He 'ad to tell her three times afore she understood 'im, and then, + instead of being thankful to 'im for 'is thoughtfulness, she chased him + 'arf over Wapping with a chopper, screaming with temper. +</p> +<p> + I remember Ginger Dick and Peter Russet trying to do old Sam Small a + kindness one time when they was 'aving a rest ashore arter a v'y'ge. + They 'ad took a room together as usual, and for the fust two or three + days they was like brothers. That couldn't last, o' course, and Sam was + so annoyed one evening at Ginger's suspiciousness by biting a 'arf-dollar + Sam owed 'im and finding it was a bad 'un, that 'e went off to spend the + evening all alone by himself. +</p> +<p> + He felt a bit dull at fust, but arter he had 'ad two or three 'arf-pints + 'e began to take a brighter view of things. He found a very nice, cosey + little public-'ouse he hadn't been in before, and, arter getting two and + threepence and a pint for the 'arf-dollar with Ginger's tooth-marks on, + he began to think that the world wasn't 'arf as bad a place as people + tried to make out. +</p> +<p> + There was on'y one other man in the little bar Sam was in—a tall, dark + chap, with black side-whiskers and spectacles, wot kept peeping round the + partition and looking very 'ard at everybody that came in. +</p> +<p> + "I'm just keeping my eye on 'em, cap'n," he ses to Sam, in a low voice. +</p> +<p> + "Ho!" ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "They don't know me in this disguise," ses the dark man, "but I see as + 'ow you spotted me at once. Anybody 'ud have a 'ard time of it to + deceive you; and then they wouldn't gain nothing by it." +</p> +<p> + "Nobody ever 'as yet," ses Sam, smiling at 'im. +</p> +<p> + "And nobody ever will," ses the dark man, shaking his 'cad; "if they was + all as fly as you, I might as well put the shutters up. How did you twig + I was a detective officer, cap'n?" +</p> +<p> + Sam, wot was taking a drink, got some beer up 'is nose with surprise. +</p> +<p> + "That's my secret," he ses, arter the tec 'ad patted 'im on the back and + brought 'im round. +</p> +<p> + "You're a marvel, that's wot you are," ses the tec, shaking his 'ead. + "Have one with me." +</p> +<p> + Sam said he didn't mind if 'e did, and arter drinking each other's + healths very perlite 'e ordered a couple o' twopenny smokes, and by way + of showing off paid for 'em with 'arf a quid. +</p> +<p> + "That's right, ain't it?" ses the barmaid, as he stood staring very 'ard + at the change. "I ain't sure about that 'arf-crown, now I come to look + at it; but it's the one you gave me." +</p> +<p> + Pore Sam, with a tec standing alongside of 'im, said it was quite right, + and put it into 'is pocket in a hurry and began to talk to the tec as + fast as he could about a murder he 'ad been reading about in the paper + that morning. They went and sat down by a comfortable little fire that + was burning in the bar, and the tec told 'im about a lot o' murder cases + he 'ad been on himself. +</p> +<p> + "I'm down 'ere now on special work," he ses, "looking arter sailormen." +</p> +<p> + "Wot ha' they been doing?" ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "When I say looking arter, I mean protecting 'em," ses the tec. "Over + and over agin some pore feller, arter working 'ard for months at sea, + comes 'ome with a few pounds in 'is pocket and gets robbed of the lot. + There's a couple o' chaps down 'ere I'm told off to look arter special, + but it's no good unless I can catch 'em red-'anded." +</p> +<p> + "Red-'anded?" ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "With their hands in the chap's pockets, I mean," ses the tec. +</p> +<p> + Sam gave a shiver. "Somebody had their 'ands in my pockets once," he + ses. "Four pun ten and some coppers they got." +</p> +<p> + "Wot was they like?" ses the tee, starting. +</p> +<p> + Sam shook his 'ead. "They seemed to me to be all hands, that's all I + know about 'em," he ses. "Arter they 'ad finished they leaned me up agin + the dock wall an' went off." +</p> +<p> + "It sounds like 'em," ses the tec, thoughtfully. "It was Long Pete and + Fair Alf, for a quid; that's the two I'm arter." +</p> +<p> + He put his finger in 'is weskit-pocket. "That's who I am," he ses, + 'anding Sam a card; "Detective-Sergeant Cubbins. If you ever get into + any trouble at any time, you come to me." +</p> +<p> + Sam said 'e would, and arter they had 'ad another drink together the tec + shifted 'is seat alongside of 'im and talked in his ear. +</p> +<p> + "If I can nab them two chaps I shall get promotion," he ses; "and it's a + fi'-pun note to anybody that helps me. I wish I could persuade you to." +</p> +<p> + "'Ow's it to be done?" ses Sam, looking at 'im. +</p> +<p> + "I want a respectable-looking seafaring man," ses the tec, speaking very + slow; "that's you. He goes up Tower Hill to-morrow night at nine + o'clock, walking very slow and very unsteady on 'is pins, and giving my + two beauties the idea that 'e is three sheets in the wind. They come up + and rob 'im, and I catch them red-'anded. I get promotion, and you get a + fiver." +</p> +<p> + "But 'ow do you know they'll be there?" ses Sam, staring at 'im. +</p> +<p> + Mr. Cubbins winked at 'im and tapped 'is nose. +</p> +<a name="image-10"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="010.jpg" height="633" width="454" +alt="'Mr. Cubbins Winked at 'im and Tapped 'is Nose.' +"> +</center> +<!--IMAGE END--> +<p> + "We 'ave to know a good deal in our line o' business," he ses. +</p> +<p> + "Still," ses Sam, "I don't see——" +</p> +<p> + "Narks," says the tec; "coppers' narks. You've 'eard of them, cap'n? + Now, look 'ere. Have you got any money?" +</p> +<p> + "I got a matter o' twelve quid or so," ses Sam, in a of hand way. +</p> +<p> + "The very thing," says the tec. "Well, to-morrow night you put that in + your pocket, and be walking up Tower Hill just as the clock strikes nine. + I promise you you'll be robbed afore two minutes past, and by two and a + 'arf past I shall 'ave my hands on both of 'em. Have all the money in + one pocket, so as they can get it neat and quick, in case they get + interrupted. Better still, 'ave it in a purse; that makes it easier to + bring it 'ome to 'em." +</p> +<p> + "Wouldn't it be enough if they stole the purse?" ses Sam. "I should feel + safer that way, too." +</p> +<p> + Mr. Cubbins shook his 'ead, very slow and solemn. "That wouldn't do at + all," he ses. "The more money they steal, the longer they'll get; you + know that, cap'n, without me telling you. If you could put fifty quid in + it would be so much the better. And, what-ever you do, don't make a + noise. I don't want a lot o' clumsy policemen interfering in my + business." +</p> +<p> + "Still, s'pose you didn't catch 'em," ses Sam, "where should I be?" +</p> +<p> + "You needn't be afraid o' that," ses the tec, with a laugh. "Here, I'll + tell you wot I'll do, and that'll show you the trust I put in you." +</p> +<p> + He drew a big di'mond ring off of 'is finger and handed it to Sam. +</p> +<p> + "Put that on your finger," he ses, "and keep it there till I give you + your money back and the fi'-pun note reward. It's worth seventy quid + if it's worth a farthing, and was given to me by a lady of title for + getting back 'er jewellery for 'er. Put it on, and wotever you do, + don't lose it" +</p> +<p> + He sat and watched while Sam forced it on is finger. +</p> +<p> + "You don't need to flash it about too much," he ses, looking at 'im + rather anxious. "There's men I know as 'ud cut your finger off to get + that." +</p> +<p> + Sam shoved his 'and in his pocket, but he kept taking it out every now + and then and 'olding his finger up to the light to look at the di'mond. + Mr. Cubbins got up to go at last, saying that he 'ad got a call to make + at the police-station, and they went out together. +</p> +<p> + "Nine o'clock sharp," he ses, as they shook hands, "on Tower Hill." +</p> +<p> + "I'll be there," ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "And, wotever you do, no noise, no calling out," ses the tec, "and don't + mention a word of this to a living soul." +</p> +<p> + Sam shook 'ands with 'im agin, and then, hiding his 'and in his pocket, + went off 'ome, and, finding Ginger and Peter Russet wasn't back, went off + to bed. +</p> +<p> + He 'eard 'em coming upstairs in the dark in about an hour's time, and, + putting the 'and with the ring on it on the counterpane, shut 'is eyes + and pretended to be fast asleep. Ginger lit the candle, and they was + both beginning to undress when Peter made a noise and pointed to Sam's + 'and. +</p> +<p> + "Wot's up?" ses Ginger, taking the candle and going over to Sam's bed. + "Who've you been robbing, you fat pirate?" +</p> +<p> + Sam kept 'is eyes shut and 'eard 'em whispering; then he felt 'em take + 'is hand up and look at it. "Where did you get it, Sam?" ses Peter. +</p> +<p> + "He's asleep," ses Ginger, "sound asleep. I b'lieve if I was to put 'is + finger in the candle he wouldn't wake up." +</p> +<p> + "You try it," ses Sam, sitting up in bed very sharp and snatching his + 'and away. "Wot d'ye mean coming 'ome at all hours and waking me up?" + "Where did you get that ring?" ses Ginger. "Friend o' mine," ses Sam, + very short. +</p> +<p> + "Who was it?" ses Peter. +</p> +<p> + "It's a secret," ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "You wouldn't 'ave a secret from your old pal Ginger, Sam, would you?" + ses Ginger. +</p> +<p> + "Old wot?" ses Sam. "Wot did you call me this arternoon?" +</p> +<p> + "I called you a lot o' things I'm sorry for," ses Ginger, who was + bursting with curiosity, "and I beg your pardin, Sam." +</p> +<p> + "Shake 'ands on it," ses Peter, who was nearly as curious as Ginger. +</p> +<p> + They shook hands, but Sam said he couldn't tell 'em about the ring; and + several times Ginger was on the point of calling 'im the names he 'ad + called 'im in the arternoon, on'y Peter trod on 'is foot and stopped him. + They wouldn't let 'im go to sleep for talking, and at last, when 'e was + pretty near tired out, he told 'em all about it. +</p> +<p> + "Going—to 'ave your—pocket picked?" ses Ginger, staring at 'im, when + 'e had finished. +</p> +<p> + "I shall be watched over," ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "He's gorn stark, staring mad," ses Ginger. "Wot a good job it is he's + got me and you to look arter 'im, Peter." +</p> +<p> + "Wot d'ye mean?" ses Sam. +</p> +<p> + "<i>Mean?</i>" ses Ginger. "Why, it's a put-up job to rob you, o' course. I + should ha' thought even your fat 'ead could ha' seen that':" +</p> +<p> + "When I want your advice I'll ask you for it," ses Sam, losing 'is + temper. "Wot about the di'mond ring—eh?" +</p> +<p> + "You stick to it," ses Ginger, "and keep out o' Mr. Cubbins's way. + That's my advice to you. 'Sides, p'r'aps it ain't a real one." +</p> +<p> + Sam told 'im agin he didn't want none of 'is advice, and, as Ginger + wouldn't leave off talking, he pretended to go to sleep. Ginger woke 'im + up three times to tell 'im wot a fool 'e was, but 'e got so fierce that + he gave it up at last and told 'im to go 'is own way. +</p> +<p> + Sam wouldn't speak to either of 'em next morning, and arter breakfast he + went off on 'is own. He came back while Peter and Ginger was out, and + they wasted best part o' the day trying to find 'im. +</p> +<p> + "We'll be on Tower Hill just afore nine and keep 'im out o' mischief, any + way," ses Peter. +</p> +<p> + Ginger nodded. "And be called names for our pains," he ses. "I've a + good mind to let 'im be robbed." +</p> +<p> + "It 'ud serve 'im right," ses Peter, "on'y then he'd want to borrer off + of us. Look here! Why not—why not rob 'im ourselves?" +</p> +<p> + "Wot?" ses Ginger, starting. +</p> +<p> + "Walk up behind 'im and rob 'im," ses Peter. "He'll think it's them two + chaps he spoke about, and when 'e comes 'ome complaining to us we'll tell + 'im it serves 'im right. Arter we've 'ad a game with 'im for a day or + two we'll give 'im 'is money back." +</p> +<p> + "But he'd reckernize us," ses Ginger. +</p> +<p> + "We must disguise ourselves," ses Peter, in a whisper. "There's a + barber's shop in Cable Street, where I've seen beards in the winder. You + hook 'em on over your ears. Get one o' them each, pull our caps over our + eyes and turn our collars up, and there you are." +</p> +<p> + Ginger made a lot of objections, not because he didn't think it was a + good idea, but because he didn't like Peter thinking of it instead of + 'im; but he gave way at last, and, arter he 'ad got the beard, he stood + for a long time in front o' the glass thinking wot a difference it would + ha' made to his looks if he had 'ad black 'air instead o' red. +</p> +<p> + Waiting for the evening made the day seem very long to 'em; but it came + at last, and, with the beards in their pockets, they slipped out and went + for a walk round. They 'ad 'arf a pint each at a public-'ouse at the top + of the Minories, just to steady themselves, and then they came out and + hooked on their beards; and wot with them, and pulling their caps down + and turning their coat-collars up, there wasn't much of their faces to be + seen by anybody. +</p> +<p> + It was just five minutes to nine when they got to Tower Hill, and they + walked down the middle of the road, keeping a bright lookout for old Sam. + A little way down they saw a couple o' chaps leaning up agin a closed + gate in the dock wall lighting their pipes, and Peter and Ginger both + nudged each other with their elbows at the same time. They 'ad just got + to the bottom of the Hill when Sam turned the corner. +</p> +<p> + Peter wouldn't believe at fust that the old man wasn't really the worse + for liquor, 'e was so lifelike. Many a drunken man would ha' been proud + to ha' done it 'arf so well, and it made 'im pleased to think that Sam + was a pal of 'is. Him and Ginger turned and crept up behind the old man + on tiptoe, and then all of a sudden he tilted Sam's cap over 'is eyes and + flung his arms round 'im, while Ginger felt in 'is coat-pockets and took + out a leather purse chock full o' money. +</p> +<p> + It was all done and over in a moment, and then, to Ginger's great + surprise, Sam suddenly lifted 'is foot and gave 'im a fearful kick on the + shin of 'is leg, and at the same time let drive with all his might in 'is + face. Ginger went down as if he 'ad been shot, and as Peter went to 'elp + him up he got a bang over the 'cad that put 'im alongside o' Ginger, + arter which Sam turned and trotted off down the Hill like a dancing-bear. +</p> +<a name="image-11"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="011.jpg" height="517" width="604" +alt="'Let Drive With All his Might in 'is Face. ' +"> +</center> +<!--IMAGE END--> +<p> + For 'arf a minute Ginger didn't know where 'e was, and afore he found out + the two men they'd seen in the gateway came up, and one of 'em put his + knee in Ginger's back and 'eld him, while the other caught hold of his + 'and and dragged the purse out of it. Arter which they both made off up + the Hill as 'ard as they could go, while Peter Russet in a faint voice + called "Police!" arter them. +</p> +<p> + He got up presently and helped Ginger up, and they both stood there + pitying themselves, and 'elping each other to think of names to call Sam. +</p> +<p> + "Well, the money's gorn, and it's 'is own silly fault," ses Ginger. "But + wotever 'appens, he mustn't know that we had a 'and in it, mind that." +</p> +<p> + "He can starve for all I care," ses Peter, feeling his 'ead. "I won't + lend 'im a ha'penny—not a single, blessed ha'penny." +</p> +<p> + "Who'd ha' thought 'e could ha' hit like that?" says Ginger. "That's wot + gets over me. I never 'ad such a bang in my life—never. I'm going to + 'ave a little drop o' brandy—my 'ead is fair swimming." +</p> +<p> + Peter 'ad one, too; but though they went into the private bar, it wasn't + private enough for them; and when the landlady asked Ginger who'd been + kissing 'im, he put 'is glass down with a bang and walked straight off + 'ome. +</p> +<p> + Sam 'adn't turned up by the time they got there, and pore Ginger took + advantage of it to put a little warm candle-grease on 'is bad leg. Then + he bathed 'is face very careful and 'elped Peter bathe his 'ead. They + 'ad just finished when they heard Sam coming upstairs, and Ginger sat + down on 'is bed and began to whistle, while Peter took up a bit o' + newspaper and stood by the candle reading it. +</p> +<p> + "Lor' lumme, Ginger!" ses Sam, staring at 'im. "What ha' you been + a-doing to your face?" +</p> +<p> + "Me?" ses Ginger, careless-like. "Oh, we 'ad a bit of a scrap down + Limehouse way with some Scotchies. Peter got a crack over the 'ead at + the same time." +</p> +<p> + "Ah, I've 'ad a bit of a scrap, too," ses Sam, smiling all over, "but I + didn't get marked." +</p> +<p> + "Oh!" ses Peter, without looking up from 'is paper. "Was it a little + boy, then?" ses Ginger. +</p> +<p> + "No, it wasn't a little boy neither, Ginger," ses Sam; "it was a couple + o' men twice the size of you and Peter here, and I licked 'em both. It + was the two men I spoke to you about last night." +</p> +<p> + "Oh!" ses Peter agin, yawning. +</p> +<p> + "I did a bit o' thinking this morning," ses Sam, nodding at 'em, "and I + don't mind owning up that it was owing to wot you said. You was right, + Ginger, arter all." +</p> +<p> + "Fust thing I did arter breakfast," ses Sam, "I took that di'mond ring to + a pawnshop and found out it wasn't a di'mond ring. Then I did a bit more + thinking, and I went round to a shop I know and bought a couple o' + knuckle-dusters." +</p> +<p> + "Couple o' wot?" ses Ginger, in a choking voice. +</p> +<p> + "Knuckle-dusters," ses Sam, "and I turned up to-night at Tower Hill with + one on each 'and just as the clock was striking nine. I see 'em the + moment I turned the corner—two enormous big chaps, a yard acrost the + shoulders, coming down the middle of the road—You've got a cold, + Ginger!" +</p> +<p> + "No, I ain't," ses Ginger. +</p> +<p> + "I pretended to be drunk, same as the tec told me," ses Sam, "and then I + felt 'em turn round and creep up behind me. One of 'em come up behind + and put 'is knee in my back and caught me by the throat, and the other + gave me a punch in the chest, and while I was gasping for breath took my + purse away. Then I started on 'em." +</p> +<p> + "Lor'!" ses Ginger, very nasty. +</p> +<p> + "I fought like a lion," ses Sam. "Twice they 'ad me down, and twice I + got up agin and hammered 'em. They both of 'em 'ad knives, but my blood + was up, and I didn't take no more notice of 'em than if they was made of + paper. I knocked 'em both out o' their hands, and if I hit 'em in the + face once I did a dozen times. I surprised myself." +</p> +<p> + "You surprise me," ses Ginger. +</p> +<p> + "All of a sudden," ses Sam, "they see they 'ad got to do with a man wot + didn't know wot fear was, and they turned round and ran off as hard as + they could run. You ought to ha' been there, Ginger. You'd 'ave enjoyed + it." +</p> +<p> + Ginger Dick didn't answer 'im. Having to sit still and listen to all + them lies without being able to say anything nearly choked 'im. He sat + there gasping for breath. +</p> +<p> + "O' course, you got your purse back in the fight, Sam?" ses Peter. +</p> +<p> + "No, mate," ses Sam. "I ain't going to tell you no lies—I did not." +</p> +<p> + "And 'ow are you going to live, then, till you get a ship, Sam?" ses + Ginger, in a nasty voice. "You won't get nothing out o' me, so you + needn't think it." +</p> +<p> + "Wot on earth's the matter, Ginger?" +</p> +<p> + "Nor me," ses Peter. "Not a brass farthing." +</p> +<p> + "There's no call to be nasty about it, mates," ses Sam. "I 'ad the best + fight I ever 'ad in my life, and I must put up with the loss. A man + can't 'ave it all his own way." +</p> +<p> + "'Ow much was it?" ses Peter. +</p> +<p> + "Ten brace-buttons, three French ha'pennies, and a bit o' tin," ses Sam. + "Wot on earth's the matter, Ginger?" +</p> +<a name="image-12"><!--IMG--></a> +<center> +<img src="012.jpg" height="470" width="451" +alt="''Wot on Earth's the Matter, Ginger?'' +"> +</center> +<!--IMAGE END--> +<p> + Ginger didn't answer him. +</p> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Self-Help, by W.W. 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Jacobs + +Release Date: January 22, 2004 [EBook #10783] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELF-HELP *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +SAILORS' KNOTS + +By W.W. Jacobs + + +1909 + + + +SELF-HELP + + +The night-watchman sat brooding darkly over life and its troubles. A +shooting corn on the little toe of his left foot, and a touch of liver, +due, he was convinced, to the unlawful cellar work of the landlord of the +Queen's Head, had induced in him a vein of profound depression. A +discarded boot stood by his side, and his gray-stockinged foot protruded +over the edge of the jetty until a passing waterman gave it a playful rap +with his oar. A subsequent inquiry as to the price of pigs' trotters +fell on ears rendered deaf by suffering. + +"I might 'ave expected it," said the watchman, at last. "I done that +man--if you can call him a man--a kindness once, and this is my reward +for it. Do a man a kindness, and years arterwards 'e comes along and +hits you over your tenderest corn with a oar." + +[Illustration: "''E comes along and hits you over your tenderest corn +with a oar.'"] + +He took up his boot, and, inserting his foot with loving care, stooped +down and fastened the laces. + +Do a man a kindness, he continued, assuming a safer posture, and 'e tries +to borrow money off of you; do a woman a kindness and she thinks you want +tr marry 'er; do an animal a kindness and it tries to bite you--same as a +horse bit a sailorman I knew once, when 'e sat on its head to 'elp it get +up. He sat too far for'ard, pore chap. + +Kindness never gets any thanks. I remember a man whose pal broke 'is leg +while they was working together unloading a barge; and he went off to +break the news to 'is pal's wife. A kind-'earted man 'e was as ever you +see, and, knowing 'ow she would take on when she 'eard the news, he told +her fust of all that 'er husband was killed. She took on like a mad +thing, and at last, when she couldn't do anything more and 'ad quieted +down a bit, he told 'er that it was on'y a case of a broken leg, thinking +that 'er joy would be so great that she wouldn't think anything of that. +He 'ad to tell her three times afore she understood 'im, and then, +instead of being thankful to 'im for 'is thoughtfulness, she chased him +'arf over Wapping with a chopper, screaming with temper. + +I remember Ginger Dick and Peter Russet trying to do old Sam Small a +kindness one time when they was 'aving a rest ashore arter a v'y'ge. +They 'ad took a room together as usual, and for the fust two or three +days they was like brothers. That couldn't last, o' course, and Sam was +so annoyed one evening at Ginger's suspiciousness by biting a 'arf-dollar +Sam owed 'im and finding it was a bad 'un, that 'e went off to spend the +evening all alone by himself. + +He felt a bit dull at fust, but arter he had 'ad two or three 'arf-pints +'e began to take a brighter view of things. He found a very nice, cosey +little public-'ouse he hadn't been in before, and, arter getting two and +threepence and a pint for the 'arf-dollar with Ginger's tooth-marks on, +he began to think that the world wasn't 'arf as bad a place as people +tried to make out. + +There was on'y one other man in the little bar Sam was in--a tall, dark +chap, with black side-whiskers and spectacles, wot kept peeping round the +partition and looking very 'ard at everybody that came in. + +"I'm just keeping my eye on 'em, cap'n," he ses to Sam, in a low voice. + +"Ho!" ses Sam. + +"They don't know me in this disguise," ses the dark man, "but I see as +'ow you spotted me at once. Anybody 'ud have a 'ard time of it to +deceive you; and then they wouldn't gain nothing by it." + +"Nobody ever 'as yet," ses Sam, smiling at 'im. + +"And nobody ever will," ses the dark man, shaking his 'cad; "if they was +all as fly as you, I might as well put the shutters up. How did you twig +I was a detective officer, cap'n?" + +Sam, wot was taking a drink, got some beer up 'is nose with surprise. + +"That's my secret," he ses, arter the tec 'ad patted 'im on the back and +brought 'im round. + +"You're a marvel, that's wot you are," ses the tec, shaking his 'ead. +"Have one with me." + +Sam said he didn't mind if 'e did, and arter drinking each other's +healths very perlite 'e ordered a couple o' twopenny smokes, and by way +of showing off paid for 'em with 'arf a quid. + +"That's right, ain't it?" ses the barmaid, as he stood staring very 'ard +at the change. "I ain't sure about that 'arf-crown, now I come to look +at it; but it's the one you gave me." + +Pore Sam, with a tec standing alongside of 'im, said it was quite right, +and put it into 'is pocket in a hurry and began to talk to the tec as +fast as he could about a murder he 'ad been reading about in the paper +that morning. They went and sat down by a comfortable little fire that +was burning in the bar, and the tec told 'im about a lot o' murder cases +he 'ad been on himself. + +"I'm down 'ere now on special work," he ses, "looking arter sailormen." + +"Wot ha' they been doing?" ses Sam. + +"When I say looking arter, I mean protecting 'em," ses the tec. "Over +and over agin some pore feller, arter working 'ard for months at sea, +comes 'ome with a few pounds in 'is pocket and gets robbed of the lot. +There's a couple o' chaps down 'ere I'm told off to look arter special, +but it's no good unless I can catch 'em red-'anded." + +"Red-'anded?" ses Sam. + +"With their hands in the chap's pockets, I mean," ses the tec. + +Sam gave a shiver. "Somebody had their 'ands in my pockets once," he +ses. "Four pun ten and some coppers they got." + +"Wot was they like?" ses the tee, starting. + +Sam shook his 'ead. "They seemed to me to be all hands, that's all I +know about 'em," he ses. "Arter they 'ad finished they leaned me up agin +the dock wall an' went off." + +"It sounds like 'em," ses the tec, thoughtfully. "It was Long Pete and +Fair Alf, for a quid; that's the two I'm arter." + +He put his finger in 'is weskit-pocket. "That's who I am," he ses, +'anding Sam a card; "Detective-Sergeant Cubbins. If you ever get into +any trouble at any time, you come to me." + +Sam said 'e would, and arter they had 'ad another drink together the tec +shifted 'is seat alongside of 'im and talked in his ear. + +"If I can nab them two chaps I shall get promotion," he ses; "and it's a +fi'-pun note to anybody that helps me. I wish I could persuade you to." + +"'Ow's it to be done?" ses Sam, looking at 'im. + +"I want a respectable-looking seafaring man," ses the tec, speaking very +slow; "that's you. He goes up Tower Hill to-morrow night at nine +o'clock, walking very slow and very unsteady on 'is pins, and giving my +two beauties the idea that 'e is three sheets in the wind. They come up +and rob 'im, and I catch them red-'anded. I get promotion, and you get a +fiver." + +"But 'ow do you know they'll be there?" ses Sam, staring at 'im. + +Mr. Cubbins winked at 'im and tapped 'is nose. + +[Illustration: "Mr. Cubbins winked at 'im and tapped 'is nose."] + +"We 'ave to know a good deal in our line o' business," he ses. + +"Still," ses Sam, "I don't see----" + +"Narks," says the tec; "coppers' narks. You've 'eard of them, cap'n? +Now, look 'ere. Have you got any money?" + +"I got a matter o' twelve quid or so," ses Sam, in a of hand way. + +"The very thing," says the tec. "Well, to-morrow night you put that in +your pocket, and be walking up Tower Hill just as the clock strikes nine. +I promise you you'll be robbed afore two minutes past, and by two and a +'arf past I shall 'ave my hands on both of 'em. Have all the money in +one pocket, so as they can get it neat and quick, in case they get +interrupted. Better still, 'ave it in a purse; that makes it easier to +bring it 'ome to 'em." + +"Wouldn't it be enough if they stole the purse?" ses Sam. "I should feel +safer that way, too." + +Mr. Cubbins shook his 'ead, very slow and solemn. "That wouldn't do at +all," he ses. "The more money they steal, the longer they'll get; you +know that, cap'n, without me telling you. If you could put fifty quid in +it would be so much the better. And, what-ever you do, don't make a +noise. I don't want a lot o' clumsy policemen interfering in my +business." + +"Still, s'pose you didn't catch 'em," ses Sam, "where should I be?" + +"You needn't be afraid o' that," ses the tec, with a laugh. "Here, I'll +tell you wot I'll do, and that'll show you the trust I put in you." + +He drew a big di'mond ring off of 'is finger and handed it to Sam. + +"Put that on your finger," he ses, "and keep it there till I give you +your money back and the fi'-pun note reward. It's worth seventy quid +if it's worth a farthing, and was given to me by a lady of title for +getting back 'er jewellery for 'er. Put it on, and wotever you do, +don't lose it" + +He sat and watched while Sam forced it on is finger. + +"You don't need to flash it about too much," he ses, looking at 'im +rather anxious. "There's men I know as 'ud cut your finger off to get +that." + +Sam shoved his 'and in his pocket, but he kept taking it out every now +and then and 'olding his finger up to the light to look at the di'mond. +Mr. Cubbins got up to go at last, saying that he 'ad got a call to make +at the police-station, and they went out together. + +"Nine o'clock sharp," he ses, as they shook hands, "on Tower Hill." + +"I'll be there," ses Sam. + +"And, wotever you do, no noise, no calling out," ses the tec, "and don't +mention a word of this to a living soul." + +Sam shook 'ands with 'im agin, and then, hiding his 'and in his pocket, +went off 'ome, and, finding Ginger and Peter Russet wasn't back, went off +to bed. + +He 'eard 'em coming upstairs in the dark in about an hour's time, and, +putting the 'and with the ring on it on the counterpane, shut 'is eyes +and pretended to be fast asleep. Ginger lit the candle, and they was +both beginning to undress when Peter made a noise and pointed to Sam's +'and. + +"Wot's up?" ses Ginger, taking the candle and going over to Sam's bed. +"Who've you been robbing, you fat pirate?" + +Sam kept 'is eyes shut and 'eard 'em whispering; then he felt 'em take +'is hand up and look at it. "Where did you get it, Sam?" ses Peter. + +"He's asleep," ses Ginger, "sound asleep. I b'lieve if I was to put 'is +finger in the candle he wouldn't wake up." + +"You try it," ses Sam, sitting up in bed very sharp and snatching his +'and away. "Wot d'ye mean coming 'ome at all hours and waking me up?" +"Where did you get that ring?" ses Ginger. "Friend o' mine," ses Sam, +very short. + +"Who was it?" ses Peter. + +"It's a secret," ses Sam. + +"You wouldn't 'ave a secret from your old pal Ginger, Sam, would you?" +ses Ginger. + +"Old wot?" ses Sam. "Wot did you call me this arternoon?" + +"I called you a lot o' things I'm sorry for," ses Ginger, who was +bursting with curiosity, "and I beg your pardin, Sam." + +"Shake 'ands on it," ses Peter, who was nearly as curious as Ginger. + +They shook hands, but Sam said he couldn't tell 'em about the ring; and +several times Ginger was on the point of calling 'im the names he 'ad +called 'im in the arternoon, on'y Peter trod on 'is foot and stopped him. +They wouldn't let 'im go to sleep for talking, and at last, when 'e was +pretty near tired out, he told 'em all about it. + +"Going--to 'ave your--pocket picked?" ses Ginger, staring at 'im, when +'e had finished. + +"I shall be watched over," ses Sam. + +"He's gorn stark, staring mad," ses Ginger. "Wot a good job it is he's +got me and you to look arter 'im, Peter." + +"Wot d'ye mean?" ses Sam. + +"_Mean?_" ses Ginger. "Why, it's a put-up job to rob you, o' course. I +should ha' thought even your fat 'ead could ha' seen that':" + +"When I want your advice I'll ask you for it," ses Sam, losing 'is +temper. "Wot about the di'mond ring--eh?" + +"You stick to it," ses Ginger, "and keep out o' Mr. Cubbins's way. +That's my advice to you. 'Sides, p'r'aps it ain't a real one." + +Sam told 'im agin he didn't want none of 'is advice, and, as Ginger +wouldn't leave off talking, he pretended to go to sleep. Ginger woke 'im +up three times to tell 'im wot a fool 'e was, but 'e got so fierce that +he gave it up at last and told 'im to go 'is own way. + +Sam wouldn't speak to either of 'em next morning, and arter breakfast he +went off on 'is own. He came back while Peter and Ginger was out, and +they wasted best part o' the day trying to find 'im. + +"We'll be on Tower Hill just afore nine and keep 'im out o' mischief, any +way," ses Peter. + +Ginger nodded. "And be called names for our pains," he ses. "I've a +good mind to let 'im be robbed." + +"It 'ud serve 'im right," ses Peter, "on'y then he'd want to borrer off +of us. Look here! Why not--why not rob 'im ourselves?" + +"Wot?" ses Ginger, starting. + +"Walk up behind 'im and rob 'im," ses Peter. "He'll think it's them two +chaps he spoke about, and when 'e comes 'ome complaining to us we'll tell +'im it serves 'im right. Arter we've 'ad a game with 'im for a day or +two we'll give 'im 'is money back." + +"But he'd reckernize us," ses Ginger. + +"We must disguise ourselves," ses Peter, in a whisper. "There's a +barber's shop in Cable Street, where I've seen beards in the winder. You +hook 'em on over your ears. Get one o' them each, pull our caps over our +eyes and turn our collars up, and there you are." + +Ginger made a lot of objections, not because he didn't think it was a +good idea, but because he didn't like Peter thinking of it instead of +'im; but he gave way at last, and, arter he 'ad got the beard, he stood +for a long time in front o' the glass thinking wot a difference it would +ha' made to his looks if he had 'ad black 'air instead o' red. + +Waiting for the evening made the day seem very long to 'em; but it came +at last, and, with the beards in their pockets, they slipped out and went +for a walk round. They 'ad 'arf a pint each at a public-'ouse at the top +of the Minories, just to steady themselves, and then they came out and +hooked on their beards; and wot with them, and pulling their caps down +and turning their coat-collars up, there wasn't much of their faces to be +seen by anybody. + +It was just five minutes to nine when they got to Tower Hill, and they +walked down the middle of the road, keeping a bright lookout for old Sam. +A little way down they saw a couple o' chaps leaning up agin a closed +gate in the dock wall lighting their pipes, and Peter and Ginger both +nudged each other with their elbows at the same time. They 'ad just got +to the bottom of the Hill when Sam turned the corner. + +Peter wouldn't believe at fust that the old man wasn't really the worse +for liquor, 'e was so lifelike. Many a drunken man would ha' been proud +to ha' done it 'arf so well, and it made 'im pleased to think that Sam +was a pal of 'is. Him and Ginger turned and crept up behind the old man +on tiptoe, and then all of a sudden he tilted Sam's cap over 'is eyes and +flung his arms round 'im, while Ginger felt in 'is coat-pockets and took +out a leather purse chock full o' money. + +It was all done and over in a moment, and then, to Ginger's great +surprise, Sam suddenly lifted 'is foot and gave 'im a fearful kick on the +shin of 'is leg, and at the same time let drive with all his might in 'is +face. Ginger went down as if he 'ad been shot, and as Peter went to 'elp +him up he got a bang over the 'cad that put 'im alongside o' Ginger, +arter which Sam turned and trotted off down the Hill like a dancing-bear. + +[Illustration: "Let drive with all his might in 'is face. "] + +For 'arf a minute Ginger didn't know where 'e was, and afore he found out +the two men they'd seen in the gateway came up, and one of 'em put his +knee in Ginger's back and 'eld him, while the other caught hold of his +'and and dragged the purse out of it. Arter which they both made off up +the Hill as 'ard as they could go, while Peter Russet in a faint voice +called "Police!" arter them. + +He got up presently and helped Ginger up, and they both stood there +pitying themselves, and 'elping each other to think of names to call Sam. + +"Well, the money's gorn, and it's 'is own silly fault," ses Ginger. "But +wotever 'appens, he mustn't know that we had a 'and in it, mind that." + +"He can starve for all I care," ses Peter, feeling his 'ead. "I won't +lend 'im a ha'penny--not a single, blessed ha'penny." + +"Who'd ha' thought 'e could ha' hit like that?" says Ginger. "That's wot +gets over me. I never 'ad such a bang in my life--never. I'm going to +'ave a little drop o' brandy--my 'ead is fair swimming." + +Peter 'ad one, too; but though they went into the private bar, it wasn't +private enough for them; and when the landlady asked Ginger who'd been +kissing 'im, he put 'is glass down with a bang and walked straight off +'ome. + +Sam 'adn't turned up by the time they got there, and pore Ginger took +advantage of it to put a little warm candle-grease on 'is bad leg. Then +he bathed 'is face very careful and 'elped Peter bathe his 'ead. They +'ad just finished when they heard Sam coming upstairs, and Ginger sat +down on 'is bed and began to whistle, while Peter took up a bit o' +newspaper and stood by the candle reading it. + +"Lor' lumme, Ginger!" ses Sam, staring at 'im. "What ha' you been +a-doing to your face?" + +"Me?" ses Ginger, careless-like. "Oh, we 'ad a bit of a scrap down +Limehouse way with some Scotchies. Peter got a crack over the 'ead at +the same time." + +"Ah, I've 'ad a bit of a scrap, too," ses Sam, smiling all over, "but I +didn't get marked." + +"Oh!" ses Peter, without looking up from 'is paper. "Was it a little +boy, then?" ses Ginger. + +"No, it wasn't a little boy neither, Ginger," ses Sam; "it was a couple +o' men twice the size of you and Peter here, and I licked 'em both. It +was the two men I spoke to you about last night." + +"Oh!" ses Peter agin, yawning. + +"I did a bit o' thinking this morning," ses Sam, nodding at 'em, "and I +don't mind owning up that it was owing to wot you said. You was right, +Ginger, arter all." + +"Fust thing I did arter breakfast," ses Sam, "I took that di'mond ring to +a pawnshop and found out it wasn't a di'mond ring. Then I did a bit more +thinking, and I went round to a shop I know and bought a couple o' +knuckle-dusters." + +"Couple o' wot?" ses Ginger, in a choking voice. + +"Knuckle-dusters," ses Sam, "and I turned up to-night at Tower Hill with +one on each 'and just as the clock was striking nine. I see 'em the +moment I turned the corner--two enormous big chaps, a yard acrost the +shoulders, coming down the middle of the road--You've got a cold, +Ginger!" + +"No, I ain't," ses Ginger. + +"I pretended to be drunk, same as the tec told me," ses Sam, "and then I +felt 'em turn round and creep up behind me. One of 'em come up behind +and put 'is knee in my back and caught me by the throat, and the other +gave me a punch in the chest, and while I was gasping for breath took my +purse away. Then I started on 'em." + +"Lor'!" ses Ginger, very nasty. + +"I fought like a lion," ses Sam. "Twice they 'ad me down, and twice I +got up agin and hammered 'em. They both of 'em 'ad knives, but my blood +was up, and I didn't take no more notice of 'em than if they was made of +paper. I knocked 'em both out o' their hands, and if I hit 'em in the +face once I did a dozen times. I surprised myself." + +"You surprise me," ses Ginger. + +"All of a sudden," ses Sam, "they see they 'ad got to do with a man wot +didn't know wot fear was, and they turned round and ran off as hard as +they could run. You ought to ha' been there, Ginger. You'd 'ave enjoyed +it." + +Ginger Dick didn't answer 'im. Having to sit still and listen to all +them lies without being able to say anything nearly choked 'im. He sat +there gasping for breath. + +"O' course, you got your purse back in the fight, Sam?" ses Peter. + +"No, mate," ses Sam. "I ain't going to tell you no lies--I did not." + +"And 'ow are you going to live, then, till you get a ship, Sam?" ses +Ginger, in a nasty voice. "You won't get nothing out o' me, so you +needn't think it." + +"Wot on earth's the matter, Ginger?" + +"Nor me," ses Peter. "Not a brass farthing." + +"There's no call to be nasty about it, mates," ses Sam. "I 'ad the best +fight I ever 'ad in my life, and I must put up with the loss. A man +can't 'ave it all his own way." + +"'Ow much was it?" ses Peter. + +"Ten brace-buttons, three French ha'pennies, and a bit o' tin," ses Sam. +"Wot on earth's the matter, Ginger?" + +[Illustration: "'Wot on earth's the matter, Ginger?'"] + +Ginger didn't answer him. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Self-Help, by W.W. 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