Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order.

A. I found he was an old sailor and knew all the seafaring men in Bristol.
B. So, I engaged him on the spot to be the ship's cook but he proved to be much more.
C. He had lost his health ashore and wanted a berth as cook to get to the sea again.
D. I was standing on the dock when by accident I fell in talk with a stranger.

DACB

The correct answer is Option (3) - DACB

The correct order of the sentences is DACB.

Here is the explanation:

• Sentence D introduces the topic of the paragraph, which is how the narrator found his ship's cook.
• Sentence A states that the narrator was standing on the dock when by accident he fell in talk with a stranger.
• Sentence C states that the stranger was an old sailor who had lost his health ashore and wanted a berth as cook to get to the sea again.
• Sentence B states that the narrator engaged the stranger on the spot to be the ship's cook.