Excerpt from The Log of the 'Nereid' A This was the remark made to me by a solid looking gentleman Of the ship-owning persuasion and Of altogether a waterside cast Of countenance, in contemptuous summing-up of myself and Of a modest Observation I had hazarded. The way Of it was this. For the twentieth timei had run down by train to a seaport to look at a hundred-and fifty ton schooner with a View to purchase. Like all the preceding nineteen that I had seen, and like nineteen hundred besides which had been introduced to me, ...
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Excerpt from The Log of the 'Nereid' A This was the remark made to me by a solid looking gentleman Of the ship-owning persuasion and Of altogether a waterside cast Of countenance, in contemptuous summing-up of myself and Of a modest Observation I had hazarded. The way Of it was this. For the twentieth timei had run down by train to a seaport to look at a hundred-and fifty ton schooner with a View to purchase. Like all the preceding nineteen that I had seen, and like nineteen hundred besides which had been introduced to me, but which I had not seen, she was described as quite the finest, stoutest, most faith fully built vessel of her class, and the best sea-boat ever known. So I had come to see her, and, like a dentist looking out for soft places in remote corners, I had been prodding about her with a big'clasp-knife. In my examination I was accompanied by her owner, and it was when I came to the mast-partners and found them yawning apart at the joints that I made my unfor tunate observation. I said, as I shoved my knife in up to the handle, There seems to have been a little play here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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