The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn
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Stables Gordon. The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn
Book One – Chapter One. Two Mitherless Bairns
Book One – Chapter Two. Life in the Woods
Book One – Chapter Three “O Eedie, I’ve Found a Child.”
Book One – Chapter Four “Ransey, Fetch Jim; We’re Goin’ On.”
Book One – Chapter Five “Oh, No! I’ll Never Leave ’Ansey till we is Bof Deaded.”
Book One – Chapter Six. Chee-Tow, the Red Chief of the Slit-Nosed Indians
Book One – Chapter Seven. On Silent Highways
Book One – Chapter Eight “Poor Mary! She has Gone On.”
Book Two – Chapter One “Just Three Years Since Ransey Went to Sea.”
Book Two – Chapter Two “Ship-Shape and Seaman-Fashion.”
Book Two – Chapter Three. A Quarterdeck Dream
Book Two – Chapter Four “Dear, Unselfish, but Somewhat Silly Fellow.”
Book Two – Chapter Five “Till the Sea Gives up its Dead.”
Book Two – Chapter Six “O my Friend, my Brother,” I Cry
Book Two – Chapter Seven “I Think You’re Going on a Wild-Goose Chase.”
Book Two – Chapter Eight. At Sea – Mermaids and Mermen
Book Two – Chapter Nine. Wonderful Adventures of the Dancing Crane
Book Two – Chapter Ten. A Brush with the Somalis – the Derelict
Book Two – Chapter Eleven. Mutiny on Board – Far to the South’ard
Book Three – Chapter One “A Sight I shall Remember till my Dying Day.”
Book Three – Chapter Two “I See a Beach of Coral Sand, Dark Figures Moving to and fro.”
Book Three – Chapter Three “We Shall Always be Brothers Now – Always, Always.”
Book Three – Chapter Four. Prisoner among Savages – Shipwreck
Book Three – Chapter Five. Fortifying the Encampment
Book Three – Chapter Six. An Awful Secret of the Sea
Book Three – Chapter Seven. Strange Adventures in a Crystalline Cave
Book Three – Chapter Eight. Entombed Alive
Book Three – Chapter Nine “On Swept the War-Canoes towards the Coral Beach.”
Book Three – Chapter Ten “An Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth.”
Book Three – Chapter Eleven. Death of James
Book Three – Chapter Twelve. Leaves from First Mate Tandy’s Log
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I trust that, from what he has already seen and heard of Ransey Tansey, the reader will not imagine I desire this little hero of mine to pose as a real saint. Boys should be boys while they have the chance. Alas, they shall grow up into men far too soon, and then they needn’t go long journeys to seek for sorrow; they will find it near home.
And now I think, reader, you and I understand each other, to some extent at all events. Though I believe he was always manly and never mean, yet, as his biographer, I am bound to confess that there was just as much monkey-mischief to the square inch about Ransey Tansey, as about any boy to whom I have ever had the honour of being introduced.
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But Miss Scragley was somewhat antiquated though not very old; somewhat set up and starchy in manner too. She preferred to import good people from London to mixing with the residents around, with the exception of the kindly-faced, white-haired old rector, Captain Weathereye, R.N., and Dr Fairincks.
In bygone ages it was currently believed that this rough old sea-dog of a captain, Weathereye would lead the then graceful Miss Scragley to the altar, and the lady herself still believed that the happy event would yet come off.
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