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Excerpt from Gotty and the Guv'nor: A True Narrative of Gotty's Doings Ashore Afloat, With an Account of His Voyage of Discovery on a Shrimping Bawley in the English Channel

They were three fishermen gossiping on Leigh jetty, and it chanced that I put my question more particularly to the tall man with a square face and white trousers - the man who had a four-cornered beard on a two-cornered chin. His was a large, strong face, absolutely calm and wise.

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Gotty was a Leigh fisherman born in 1853. A colourful character, he was used to sailing from a very early age. In 1906 he met Arthur Copping, a freelance writer and so started an association that culminated in the publication of "Gotty and the Guv'nor" the following year.