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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