Quarterdeck and Fok'sle: Stories of the Sea
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The friendship between Young Brydell and Grubb the marine came about in this way.One morning in May, just after Admiral Beaumont had finished the beautiful toilet he made at precisely eight o’clock every morning, he threw wide his bedroom shutters to see if the toilet of the navy yard grounds had been made too. For the admiral was possessed by a demon of neatness and order that is apt to develop in a naval officer long used to the perfect cleanliness and discipline of a man-of-war.The admiral was the tenderest-hearted old fellow in the world, but the strictest sort of martial law prevailed in ...
Chapters (26)
- QUARTERDECK AND FOK’SLE STORIES OF THE SEA
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT.
- CHAPTER II. YOUNG BRYDELL’S CHUMS.
- CHAPTER III. BRYDELL’S FIRST FAILURE.
- CHAPTER IV. BRYDELL’S SECOND FAILURE.
- CHAPTER V. STRIKING OUT FOR HIMSELF.
- CHAPTER VI. A NEW LIFE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE SUMMER CRUISE.
- CHAPTER VIII. A QUESTION OF HONOR.
- CHAPTER IX. GRUBB’S HONORABLE DISCHARGE.
- CHAPTER X. IN COMMAND OF THE SQUADRON.
- CHAPTER XI. A SAFE RETURN.
- CHAPTER XII. BRYDELL REDEEMS HIS PROMISE.
- CHAPTER I. ON BOARD THE DIOMEDE.
- CHAPTER II. A GALLANT RESCUE.
- CHAPTER III. DICKY’S PATRIOTISM.
- CHAPTER IV. AN IMPORTANT ERRAND.
- CHAPTER V. AN ADVENTURE WITH THE REDCOATS.
- CHAPTER VI. JACK BELL’S SECRET.
- CHAPTER VII. GENERAL PRESCOTT’S CAPTURE.
- CHAPTER VIII. DICKY’S NEW SONG.
- CHAPTER IX. DICKY ENLISTS.
- CHAPTER X. AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER.
- CHAPTER XI. THE ENEMY OUTWITTED.
- FOOTNOTES
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