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. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...if he took an oar, and that was all the fishing he did. Nevertheless, he used to go on bragging as loudly as ever about his boating in places where there was " a real sea on--not a muddy ditch like the Samphire Marshby sea." That day I am telling you about, I was unlucky enough to go out in a sailing ...
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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. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...if he took an oar, and that was all the fishing he did. Nevertheless, he used to go on bragging as loudly as ever about his boating in places where there was " a real sea on--not a muddy ditch like the Samphire Marshby sea." That day I am telling you about, I was unlucky enough to go out in a sailing-boat which Fred had helped to hire. The boatman let him steer, because he boasted so, but Chapman didn't even know what "port" and "starboard" meant. Whatever the man said, Chapman always put the boat's head just where he oughtn't to have put it. We ran foul of another boat, and we were nearly capsized in a puff of wind because Chapman hauled in the sheet when the man shouted "Let go," and we got almost under the paddles of the Fire Queen, from London, as she splashed up alongside the jetty; and then Chapman managed to jam us between two of the blistered, brown-black jetty piles. The boat crunched like a crushed basket, and pop! pop! went the pods of the sea-weed that hung from the piles like dishevelled hair, as we ground against them. The people leaning over the rails of the steamboat and the jetty chaffed Master Fred nicely on his seamanship; and so did we when we got safe ashore. But when he was safe ashore he talked as big as ever. The Marshby people, he said, were only half-and-half sailors, and the steamboat people were mere Cockneys--none of them really understood anything about sailing a boat--he was always right when he went out with South-coast men and West-coast men--they didn't even know the right names of things on the East coast--he had done just what the man had really told him to do, though he did think it was wrong, because he felt bound to obey orders--and so on, and so on. Fred...
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