Ocean Tramps
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About This Book
From the author of "The Blue Lagoon" comes an entertaining set of stories about life in the South Pacific. "I met Billy Harman on Circular Wharf, Sydney, so many years ago that I think he must be dead. He is the chief person in the first six stories of this book, which have appeared illustrated in an English, an American and a Canadian magazine, in all of which the illustrator depicted Billy as a young, rather good-looking man. That he was not. Billy, when I met him, was well over forty, big and scrubby-bearded, a shell-back with a touch of the Longshoreman, blue far-seeing eyes, the eyes of a...
Chapters (16)
- OCEAN TRAMPS
- I: Bud and Billy
- II: Mandelbaum
- III: The Way of a Maid With a Man
- IV: Sunk Without Trace
- V: A Deal With “Plain Sailin’ Jim”
- VI: Pearls of Great Price!
- VII: Beaten on the Post
- VIII: A Case in Point
- IX: The Other One
- X: Iron Law, or the Queen of Utiali
- XI: The Story of Billy Broke
- XII: The Making of a Millionaire
- XIII: Kiliwakee
- XIV: Under the Flame Trees
- XV: The Abbott Mystery
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