South Sea Shipmates Classic Reprint

Author : A. E. Loane
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483613935
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Shipmates (Classic Reprint) written by A. E. Loane and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shipmates The night Byam died, his son, a stout major of marines, sat up with him. Towards morning he felt hungry and exhausted, and, thinking that his father was sleeping, helped himself to some of the fruit left by his bedside. He dropped the bunch like a pilfering schoolboy when the old man suddenly rapped his stick on the floor and shouted angrily No, you don't, sir! No, you don't. Those grapes are mine. When Byam proposed to his wife he told her that he was considered the most disagreeable man in the service, but unluckily she did not believe him until afterwards. The marriage ceremony must have been one of the shortest on record, for Shaw solemnly assured me that he took a working-party ashore at eight, and he came aboard to lunch at twelve a married man. It wasn't altogether his temper that made them unhappy, Langley told me it was that they had so little in common. Byam was a clever man in his way, and read all his life. She was not merely ill-educated. Most women - and men - are that; but if you have had any kind of an education you have some idea of your bearings, and you can Ship what you most want as you go along. She was almost illiterate. When Byam died, Shaw had to manage all her affairs for her. The Blue Marine was such a chowder-head, and the Red Marine was out of England, and the Naval Instructor was out of favour at the time the will was made, and the daughter was dead. Besides, people always find some pretext for making use of Shaw. Mrs. Byam could just manage to Sign her name while he kept his finger on the right spot to pencil a document and send it by post was utterly useless. I don't think she could do simple addition on paper, but Shaw said she was awfully keen about money matters, and could work out long calculations in her head. It distracted him if she insisted on comparing notes in the middle, but their results always tallied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.