Seven Frozen Sailors

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Fenn George Manville. Seven Frozen Sailors

Chapter One. How We Got There

Chapter Two. The English Sailor’s Yarn

Chapter Three. The Irish Sailor’s Yarn

Chapter Four. The Scotch Sailor’s Yarn

Chapter Five. The Welsh Sailor’s Yarn

Chapter Six. The Dutch Sailor’s Yarn

Chapter Seven. The French Sailor’s Yarn

Chapter Eight. The Yankee Sailor’s Yarn

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Well, yes, I’ve been wrecked three times, and I’ve been aboard when a fire’s broken out, and I’ve seen some fighting – close work some of it, and precious hot; and I was once among savages, and there was one that was a kind of a princess among ’em – But there, that’s no story, and might happen to any man.

If I were Atlantic Jones now, I could tell you a story worth listening to. Atlantic Jones was made of just the kind of stuff they make heroes out of for story books. He was a rum ’un was J. If I could spin a yarn about anything, it ought to be about him, now. I only wish I could.

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“But how can I help you in return?” I asked.

“Well, it’s to that chance I spoke of,” he said, confidentially. “Look here – I’ve an engagement for a tour down to the Midland counties. The pay isn’t very wonderful, to start with; but I’m to have more if we do good business, you know; and I’ve stipulated that we do a nautical drama, and I play Jack Brine– that’s the sailor hero, you know – myself.”

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