Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... sick of runnin' this floatin' junk shop, and wanted the new schooner when she was ready. He softsoddered me till I felt slippery all over; told me I could git more out of an old vessel than any man he ever had, and that he jest simply couldn't shift me till the Thomas Doane was ready for the scrap heap. Said not to worry; the firm appreciated what I was doin' and would make it right with me--and a whole lot more. Well, I can't kick so fur's wages go; but if it wan't that Williams Brothers pay me more'n ha'f again what most coastin' skippers git, I'd chuck it to-morrer and hunt a new berth." On one memorable evening the Captain, having previously whispered to Bradley to put on his "Sunday togs," sent the boy on an errand to a cigar store near the wharf and told him to wait there "for further orders." In a little while he, himself, came into the store, commanded Bradley to "lay alongside and say nothin'," and the pair walked briskly across the city to the elevated railway station. Then they rode uptown, had a six-course dinner in a marvelous restaurant, where an orchestra played while you ate, and then went to the theatre to see a play called "The Great Metropolis." It was all real to Bradley, and he thrilled, wept and laughed alternately; but the Captain was disgusted. "I swan to man!" he ejaculated, as they went out, after the villain had becomingly shot himself, and the hero and heroine were clasped in each other's arms, "blessed if them plays with sea scenes in 'em don't make me sick. Did you notice that life-savin1 bus'ness? Ship aground in the breakers, with her bowspit stickin' ten foot over dry land, and the crew took off in the breeches buoy! If they'd swung out on the jib-boom and dropped, they'd have landed on the roof of the...