Many Cargoes was followed by the novel "The Skipper's Wooing" in 1897, and another collection of short stories, Sea Urchins (1898) set the seal on his popularity. Among his more titles come "Captains All", "Sailors' Knots", and "Night Watches". A title of a endure peradventure reflects a popularity of mayhap his virtually all enduring character: the nighttime-watchman on the wharfage inside Wapping, recounting the derisory escapade of his acquaintances Ginger Dick, Sam Microscopic, & Peter Russett. These trey characters, pockets fully fallowing an extended voyage, would require lodgings together determined to enjoy an extended spell onto land; however a slick habitant of dockland London would soon relieve the babies of their funds, assisted per sailors' have fecklessness & credulity. Jacobs showed the delicacy of touch within his treating of the harsh vernacular of the East End of London, which attracted the respect of such writers as P. G. Wodehouse, who mentions Jacobs in his autobiographical work "Bring on the Girls" (written with Guy Bolton, published 1954).

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