Captains Courageous : a story of the Grand Banks
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| dc.contributor.author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
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| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:34:45Z |
| dc.date.created | 1896 |
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| dc.title | Captains Courageous : a story of the Grand Banks |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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TO JAMES CONLAND, M.D., Brattleboro, Vermont
I ploughed the land with horses,
But my heart was ill at ease,
For the old sea-faring men
Came to me now and then,
With their sagas of the seas.
Longfellow.
Chapter 1
The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet.
“That Cheyne boy’s the biggest nuisance aboard,” said a man in a frieze overcoat, shutting the door with a bang. “He isn’t wanted here. He’s too fresh.”
A white-haired German reached for a sandwich, and grunted between bites: “I know der breed. Ameriga is full of dot kind. I dell you you should imbort ropes’ ends free under your dariff.”
“Pshaw! There isn’t any real harm to him. He’s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions under the wet skylight. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother this morning. . . .
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