Home is the Sailor Author:Rumer Godden First lines: "In the doll's house there was not a single man doll. There was a fishing net, made from a bit of hair-net on a loop of fine wire; over the dining-room fireplace a sword hung on a piece of red cotton, and on the hat rack in the hall hung a mortar-board, which is the flat black hat with a tassell that college professors wear; these ... more »were all there so that once upon a time there must have been a fisherman, a soldier and a professor in the house, but now there were no men dolls, not even a boy, except Curly." (Illustrated)« less