Round the Galley Fire

Round the Galley Fire
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William Clark Russell. Round the Galley Fire

Round the Galley Fire

Table of Contents

ROUND THE GALLEY FIRE

A DANCE AT SEA

GOING ALOFT

A TRICK AT THE WHEEL

THE BAILIFF AT SEA

OFF THE HORN

A STRANGE CHASE

A SALVAGE JOB

A CHANNEL INCIDENT

LOSS OF A SMACK’S CREW

FIRE AT SEA

SEA-SICKNESS

A LOG EXTRACT

IN AN OPEN BOAT

WAITING FOR A SHIP

SKIPPERS’ WIVES AT SEA

SEA SONGS

AN HOUR’S ROW

THE PLEASURES OF YACHTING

A DRUNKEN SHIP

A SAILOR’S CLUB

THE PERILS OF HUMANITY

SMACK APPRENTICES

GRAVESEND

A CHAT WITH A FISHERMAN

A FOURPENNY VOYAGE

POOR JACK

ON THE GOODWINS

THE STRANGERS’ HOME

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William Clark Russell

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“He stood up, but was so cramped in his timbers that he could scarcely shuffle along, and I had to drag him by the collar. When the captain saw by the lamplight the plight the fellow was in, his heart failed him altogether. There was no more proper dignified scorn.

“‘Why,’ says he, looking at him, ‘I didn’t think it was such a bad job as that,’ and he jumped up and fetched him a suit of dry clothes, and then poured out a dose of brandy. This was regular knuckling under. He had gone on con-sidering and con-sidering until he was in an out-and-out funk. There was no use in my saying anything. The bailiff had growd on a sudden to become the strongest man aboard that brig, though as for me, when I tell you that had I been the captain I’d have sent the fellow aloft, and kept him there all night, as a hint to leave sailor men alone on future occasions, ye’ll allow that my caving in wur only because I wasn’t skipper, and that’s all. Well, sir, to cut this yarn short, luck turned in favour of that bailiff with a wengeance. At midnight it was blowing a hurricane, and the skipper said there was no good going on facing it, he must put back.

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