Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn
Chapter One. The Cottage and its Inmates
Chapter Two. Wrecked, Rescued, and Resuscitated—Mrs Niven receives a Surprise, also the Gift of a Child
Chapter Three. The Cottage at Cove invaded—Dan Horsey speaks “Toorko” to Russians, and fails to enlighten them
Chapter Four. The Rescue
Chapter Five. The Breakfast Party at Seaside Villa
Chapter Six. Kenneth indulges in Suspicions and Surmises
Chapter Seven. Lizzie Gordon is run away with, and Gaff is “pumped”
Chapter Eight. Dan Horsey does the Agreeable in the Kitchen
Chapter Nine. The Sailors’ Home and the Mad Skipper
Chapter Ten. The Dinner in the Restaurant—Haco meets an Old Friend and becomes Communicative
Chapter Eleven. The Writing of the “Hambigoo-ous” Letter
Chapter Twelve. The Bu’ster wills to accomplish Mischief, and gets into Trouble
Chapter Thirteen. The Storm, and its Consequences
Chapter Fourteen. Gaff and Billy become the Sport of Fortune, and see Strange Things
Chapter Fifteen. The Dinner Party—A Sudden Piece of Questionable Good Fortune befalls Mrs Gaff
Chapter Sixteen. Jack Tar before and after the Institution of the S.F.M.S
Chapter Seventeen. Mrs Gaff endeavours fruitlessly to understand the Nature of Cash, Principal, and Interest
Chapter Eighteen. Mrs Gaff becomes a Woman of Business, and finds it awfully Hard Work
Chapter Nineteen. The Open Boat on the Pacific—Gaff And Billy in Dreadful Circumstances—A Message from the Sea, and a Madman’s Death
Chapter Twenty. The Voyage of the Bottle
Chapter Twenty One. The Fortunes of Gaff and Billy continued
Chapter Twenty Two. The Island-Home Examined
Chapter Twenty Three. Relating to Improvements in the Hut, and Mrs Gaff’s Perplexities
Chapter Twenty Four. Miss Peppy undertakes a Journey
Chapter Twenty Five. Perplexities and Musical Charms
Chapter Twenty Six. Mad Haco startled at last
Chapter Twenty Seven. Plot and Counterplot, ending in a Long Chase
Chapter Twenty Eight. Plotters Counterplotted
Chapter Twenty Nine. Dreadful Suspicions aroused in Anxious Bosoms
Chapter Thirty. Strange Scenes and Doings far away
Chapter Thirty One. Delivered, Wrecked, and Rescued
Chapter Thirty Two. Home Again
Chapter Thirty Three. The Sailors’ Home and the New Secretary
Chapter Thirty Four. Failures and Hopes Deferred, and Consequences
Chapter Thirty Five. Conclusion
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On the same dark tempestuous night of which I write, a little ship was wrecked on the east coast of England.
She had sailed from the antipodes, had weathered many a gale, had crossed the great ocean in safety, had sighted the lights and the cliffs of “home,” and was dashed to pieces at last on the rocks within two hours’ sail of the port to which she was bound.
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“It is,” replied Mrs Niven, trembling violently.
Gaff quickly removed the jacket, kissed the child’s pale cheek, and laid her in Mrs Niven’s ready arms.
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