Snarleyyow Or The Dog Fiend Author:Frederick Marryat Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It was high time that they went on board ; so thought Fran Vandersloosh, who trembled for her chandeliers ; so thought Babette, who had begun to yawn before the ... more »last song, and who had tired herself more with laughing at it ; so thought they all, and they sallied forth out of the Lust Haus, with Jemmy Ducks having the advance, and fiddling to them the whole way down to the boat. Fortunately, not one of them fell into the canal, and in ten minutes they were all on board ; they were not, however, permitted to turn into their hammocks without the important information being imparted to them that Snarleyyow had disappeared. CllArTEH X. IK WHICH IS EXPLAINED THE SUBLIME MYSTERY OP KEEL-HAULING SNARLEYYOW SAVES SMALLBONE8 FROM BEING DROWNED, ALTHOUGH SMALLBONES WOULD HAVE DROWNED HIM. It is a dark morning ; the wind is fresh from the north-west; flakes of snow are seen wafting here and there by the wind, the avant-couriers of a heavy fall; the whole sky is of one murky grey, and the sun is hidden behind a dense bank. The deck of the cutter is wet and slippery, and Dick Short has the morning watch. He is wrapt up in a Flushing pea-jacket, with thick mittens on his hands; he looks about him, and now and then a fragment of snow whirls into his eye ; he winks it out, it melts- and runs like a tear down his cheek. If it were not that it is contrary to man-of-war custom he would warm himself with the double-shuffle, but such a step would be unheard of on the quarter-deck of even the cutter Yungfrau. The tarpaulin over the hatchway is pushed on one side, and '.he space between the coamings is filled with the bull head and broad shoulders of Corporal Van Spitter, who, at last, gainsthe deck ; he looks round him and apparently is not much pleased with the weather. Before he proc...« less