Many Cargoes (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Many Cargoes "Yes, I´ve sailed under some ´cute skippers in my time," said the night-watchman; "them that go down in big ships see the wonders o´ the deep, you know," he added with a sudden chuckle, "but the one I´m going to tell you about ought never to have been trusted out without ´is ma. A good many o´ my skippers had fads, but this one was the worst I ever sailed under. "It´s some few years ago now; I´d shipped on his barque, the John Elliott, as slow-going an old tub as ever I was aboard of, when I wasn´t in quite a fit an´ proper state to know what I was doing, an´ I hadn´t been in her two days afore I found out his ´obby through overhearing a few remarks made by the second mate, who came up from dinner in a hurry to make ´em. ´I don´t mind saws an´ knives hung round the cabin,´ he ses to the fust mate, ´but when a chap has a ´uman and alongside ´is plate, studying it while folks is at their food, it´s more than a Christian man can stand.´ "´Thats nothing,´ ses the fust mate, who had sailed with the barque afore. ´He´s half crazy on doctoring. 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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