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February 25, 2019 By W. W. Jacobs in Old Stories Tags: W.W. Jacobs, marriage, scams, young love, sailors

A lad of about twenty stepped ashore from the schooner Jane, and joining a girl, who had been avoiding for some ten minutes the ardent gaze of the night-watchman, set off arm-in-arm. The watchman rolled his eyes and shook his head slowly. English writer W.W Jacobs is best known for his story The Monkey’s Paw. This tale of sailors and their money turns on their prejudices — and ours. You can find it, and others like it, in Jacobs’ collection Night Watches, at Project Gutenberg. Nearly all his money on ‘is back, he said, and what little bit ‘e’s got [Read More]

The Tipster

January 8, 2019 By Edwin Lefevre in Old Stories Tags: wall street, investing, scams, public domain stories, new york, Edwin Lefevre

I Glmartin was still laughing professionally at the prospective buyer’s funny story when the telephone on his desk buzzed. He said: “Excuse me for a minute, old man,” to the customer—Hopkins, the Connecticut manufacturer. “Hello; who is this?” he spoke into the transmitter. “Oh, how are you?—Yes—I was out—Is that so?—Too bad—Too bad—Yes; just my luck to be out. I might have known it!—Do you think so?—Well, then, sell the 200 Occidental common—You know best—What about Trolley?—Hold on?—All right; just as you say—I hope so—I don’t like to lose, and—Ha! ha!—I guess so—Good-by.” In Edwin Lefevre’s short story of Wall [Read More]