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Here, There, and Everywhere; A Boy's Book of Adventures, Illustrative of Courage and Perseverance
Here There and Everywhere A Boy's Book of Adventures Illustrative of Courage and Perseverance Author:William Henry Giles Kingston General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: World Pub. House Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: OUR FIRST GREAT SEA-FIGHT; AN INCIDENT IN THE BOYHOOD OF ADMIKAL BLAKB, It was in the month of March, Anno Domini 1617 -- just two hundred and forty-five years ago, when James the First was king -- that a lad might have been seen crouched down among some bales of goods on one of the public quays of Plymouth, reading so attentively as to be alike unconscious of the traffic going on around him, and of the bitter blowing of the east wind. Sitting thus, with his knees drawn up and his head resting on his hand, he looked as though he might have been about seventeen years of age. His sober suit of black and gray, cut in the by-gone fashion of a former reign, showed him to be a scholar in some public school; whilst the silver medal, suspended round his neck by a broad ribbon, gave proof of hia industry and of the approbation of his masters. It was a cold brilliant morning, with the wind blowing ofl7 the sea, and the dust driving in great " Boy anO iiiun I sailed vitli hiin all my life, from the Jay he got his first command till he was struck down in the hour of 'ictorv." clouds up the streets of the town. The ships outside the harbor were dancing merrily over the crested waves, and even the anchored vessels close against the quays swayed gently with the rising and falling of the waters. Here were merchantmen from Virginia and Guiana delivering their cargoes; great ships of war, with their officers loitering up and down the decks; fishing-smacks, coming in with fresh-caught red mullet and Devonshire pilchards; and small boats, of all sizes, darting about on swift oars ...« less