Punch
Listen, my Grandchildren! for you are mine, not indeed by the ridiculous accident of birth (since to speak the truth I am an unmarried old sea-dog), but by the far higher and more honourable title of having been selected by me to hear this yarn. You know well enough that such...
This catastrophe ended the battle. The allied fleets had been swept off the face of the ocean. I packed what remained of H.M.S. _Bandersnatch_ in my tobacco-pouch, attached myse...
4. Chapter 4We advanced in this imposing order for five minutes. Then came a puff of smoke, and, in less time than it takes to tell it, two thousand men had been literally blown into thin a...
2. Chapter 2War had been declared. We had known for a long time that it was coming. For months past the bellicose bench of Bishops had been preaching war in all the Cathedrals of the land....
1. Chapter 1Listen, my Grandchildren! for you are mine, not indeed by the ridiculous accident of birth (since to speak the truth I am an unmarried old sea-dog), but by the far higher and mo...
3. Chapter 3I was at that time in command of H.M.S. _Bandersnatch_, a vessel of nine hundred thousand horse-power, and a mean average displacement of four hundred thousand tons. Ah, the dea...