Brighter Years (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Watson, Sydney) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Brighter Years Our teeth chattered, our noses grew blue, and the cold creeps moved snake-like up over the scalp. (Oh, the unnecessary waiting, under the sun of the tropics, and in the bitter cold and winds of winters, while officers loiter about before coining to inspect men drawn up for inspection!) By the way, a real nautical yarn crosses my mind here anent waiting for inspection. I was cruising in the neighbourhood of the Red Sea once, in a very smart man-of-war, and all hands were suffering intensely from the tropical rays, and from that wretched Eastern scourge - prickly heat. A crowd of us were on the t´gallant fo´c´sle, and what talk there was turned on the topic of heat. Yarn after yarn, each tougher in the strand than the last, was told, when a middle-aged man, who had the mildest, most baby-innocent expression of face of any man whom I ever met, with the quietest, oiliest voice possible to conceive, whom his shipmates had nicknamed "Softly," but who was the hardest nut to crack in the ship, cleared his throat and said, - "Yes, it is warm; but it ain´t as warm as -" He stopped short, yawned, covered his mouth with his hand (when the yawn was finished), looked at us with his baby-innocent eyes, as though he wondered why we all watched and waited upon him. "Out with the yarn, Softly!" cried a score of voices. "The yarn?" he murmured, a smile flickering for one brief second about his mouth, like the dying wick of a composite candle, then suddenly vanishing, as that same candle flicker would when the wick suddenly collapses into the molten wax. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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