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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIX CONCLUDING STRANDS "Sail away, Hack away, Plunder.' (Boom.) Gather all the valuables you can. Come back, Nothing lack, Thunder/ (Boom.) Scatter all the money like a man." THE Bristol Merchants anchor has kissed Severn mud once more, and Willie Trehalion's song--sung, roared, and shouted in every variety of voice and key--is rising from the throats of her brownfaced crew, and compelling attention on the wharves and landing-stages of Bristol city. Aye, and throughout the whole town, too, for the verses are pointed with the boom of a big gun, while the end of the song itself is marked by a whole broadside. The years of adventure and peril have come to an end at last; and now before the quill is laid aside and the ugly, uncompromising word Finis is scrawled across the bottom of the last page, a few more dips in the ink-horn will enable Captain Alexander Ireland's brave lads to make their bow, and march off the stage with ensign and pennants flying. For John Topp prides himself on being too old a seaman to leave the strands of his yarn lying littered about the decks, but prefers instead to see them snugly moused and pointed to an end. When the Bristol Merchant set out from the muddy Severn to seek adventure and gold in the far-away West, one hundred and one men, drunk and sober, had watched from her decks the black wavy line which marked the iron-bound coast of Devon, until it sank slowly beneath the horizon astern, and had then turned with hearts full of hope to follow the beckoning arms of the flashing sun as it dipped, all molten gold, into the waste of western waters. It was the beacon which told us that out there beyond the Atlantic rollers lay Manoa, the city whose streets were paved with gold. Ah, but it lied! That golden glory of the sunse...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150562498
- ISBN 13 9781150562495
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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