night-watch-man

Updated: February 15, 2026

"Now go." "Artfulness," said the night-watch-man, smoking placidly, "is a gift; but it don't pay always. I've met some artful ones in my time plenty of 'em; but I can't truthfully say as 'ow any of them was the better for meeting me."

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs - Captains All and Others