"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
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""Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea" by Morgan Robertson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Morgan Robertson. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

Table of Contents

"WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD"

PART I

PART II

PART III

THE BRAIN OF THE BATTLE-SHIP

THE WIGWAG MESSAGE

THE TRADE-WIND

SALVAGE

BETWEEN THE MILLSTONES

THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS

FROM THE ROYAL-YARD DOWN

NEEDS MUST WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES

WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK

PRIMORDIAL

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Morgan Robertson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Now and then, when the officers' faces were partly turned, a man would stop, rise erect on his knees, and bend backward. A man may work a holystone much longer and press it much harder on the deck for these occasional stretchings of contracted tissue; but the two mates chose to ignore this physiological fact, and a moment later, a little man, caught in the act by Mr. Jackson, was also rolled over on his back, not by a bucket of water, but by the boot of the mate, who uttered words suitable to the occasion, and held his hand in his pocket until the little man, grinning with rage, had resumed his work.

"So this is your trained crew, is it, captain?" said a grizzled old skipper of the party. "What ails that fellow down in the scuppers with a prayer-book?" He pointed to a man who with one hand was rubbing a small holystone in a corner where a large one would not go.

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