Category: Humour
If he had not been so much of a gentleman, I should have said that the half-closing of his left eye and its rapid reopening had been a wink; as it was, we will say it was not. The next moment, he had thrown himself back in his chair, smiled, and said, quietly. "Not yet, captai...
If he had not been so much of a gentleman, I should have said that the half-closing of his left eye and its rapid reopening had been a wink; as it was, we will say it was not. T...
2. CHAPTER TWO.You see, I haven't the trick of putting it together, or else, I dare say, I could spin you no end of a yarn out of many a queer thing I've come across, and many a queer thing th...
3. CHAPTER THREE.I have followed the say, man and boy, any time these thirty years and more; and sure it's but little I have to tell you about that same in the way of short commons, long voyages...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.All about Slievochan, there was no lassie like Maggie Miller. Her father was a kind o' overlooker to the Laird o' Taggart, and so was reckoned weel-to-do. He was an elder o' the...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.My name aboard ship is registered John Jones. Yes, indeed. Though, to confess exactly, I was born the son of Hugh Anwyl, miner, of the parish of Glanwern, in the county of Merio...
6. CHAPTER SIX.As for my name, it is Daal, Van Daal; and if there be any of my kinsfolk going about saying that they have the right to put a "Van" before their name, and that they come of the...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.I am master of the yacht _Zephire_; at least I was her master. A hundred fathoms of green water roll over her masts now. Fishes of monstrous shape feed on our good stores. For a...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.I warn't never meant for no sailor, I warn't; but I come of a great nation, and when a chap out our way says he'll du a thing, he does it. I said I'd go to sea, and I went--and...