An Old Sailor's Yarns. N. Ames Kent

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       MARY BOWLINE.

       MARY BOWLINE

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       OLD CUFF

       OLD CUFF.

       THE RIVALS.

       THE RIVALS.

       MORTON

       MORTON.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       THE PIRATE OF MASAFUERO.

       THE PIRATE OF MASAFUERO.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

PREFACE.

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      Mr. Buckingham, noticing the "Nautical Reminiscences" in the New England Magazine, says, no author ever stopped at the second book; and he very gravely proceeds to recommend that my number three should savor more of the style of Goldsmith or Washington Irving. I should have no objection whatever to writing like either of these distinguished authors, if I could; but as the case is, I must be content to write as well as I can. The whole article in Mr. B's magazine bore no faint resemblance to a dose of calomel and jalap, administered in a table-spoonful of molasses, in which the sweet and the nauseous are so equally balanced, that the patient is in doubt whether to spit or to swallow. I was, however, exceedingly СКАЧАТЬ