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The Cruise of the Midge. E-book. Formato PDF Michael Scott - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Confound these old-fashioned snuffers, the spring is broken I My eyes opened at this, wider, I believe, than they had ever done before, and my ears tingled. What a speech from an inhabitant of the other world I thought I. Oh is it you, Joe Peak quoth the handsome spectre; why do you steal in and startle one so, you little villain Hush — off with these heavy shoes of yours, and come and sit down, will ye?
The Cruise of the Midge. E-book. Formato PDF Michael Scott - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Born an Irishman, the son of an Irishwoman; educated in Scotland, the country of my father, an ancient mariner, who, as master and supercargo, had sailed his own ship for many years in the Virginia trade; removed to England at the age of seventeen, in consequence of his death; I had, by the time I arrived at majority, passed four years of my mercantile apprenticeship in my paternal uncle's counting- house, an extensive merchant in that modern Tyre, the enterprising town of Liverpool; during which period, young as I was, I had already made four voyages in different vessels of his to foreign parts - to the West Indies, the Brazils, the Costa Firme, and the United States of America.