Old Jack
by William Henry Giles Kingston
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About This Book
Jack began his story thus: Of course you've heard of Donnybrook Fair, close to the city of Dublin. What a strange scene it was, to be sure, of uproar and wild confusion-of quarrelling and fighting from beginning to end-of broken heads, of black eyes, and bruised shins-of shouting, of shrieking and swearing-of blasphemy and drunkenness in all its forms of brutality. Ay, and as I've heard say, of many a deed of darkness, not omitting murder, and other crimes not less foul and hateful to Him who made this beautiful world, and gave to man a religion of love and purity. There the rollicking, roarin...
Chapters (46)
- W.H.G. Kingston "Old Jack"
- Chapter One.
- Donnybrook Fair.
- Chapter Two.
- The Bitters and Sweets of a Sea-Life.
- Chapter Three.
- The West Indies.
- Chapter Four.
- The Return Home.
- Chapter Five.
- The Planter’s House Besieged.
- Chapter Six.
- A Terrible Execution, and a Narrow Escape.
- Chapter Seven.
- A Pirate Stronghold.
- Chapter Eight.
- Pirates in both Hemispheres.
- Chapter Nine.
- A Ship without a Crew.
- Chapter Ten.
- The Water-Logged Ship.
- Chapter Eleven.
- Adventures in Morocco—Search for the Lost Captain.
- Chapter Twelve.
- The Salee Rover and the British Corvette.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Jack a Man-of-War’s-Man.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Tyranny—War and Mutiny, with a Glimpse of Home Comforts between.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Jack a Prisoner—A Privateer and a Slaver.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- Whaling in the South-Sea.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Incidents of Whaling.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Whaling and Seal-Catching in the Icy Regions.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- A Visit to Java.
- Chapter Twenty.
- Strange Adventures and Naval Exploits.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- Batavia and the Feejee Islands.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- Life among the Savages—Jack’s Escape and Return Home.
- The End.
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