Name: Dick Leslie's Luck; A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure
Author: Harry Collingwood
ISBN: 9780267716753

Dick Leslie's Luck; A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure

By Harry Collingwood 8 Nov, 2019

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Excerpt........The night was as dark as the inside of a cow! Mr. Pryce, the chief mate of the full-rigged sailing ship Golden Fleece—outward-bound to Melbourne—was responsible for this picturesque assertion; and one had only to glance for a moment into the obscurity that surrounded the ship to acknowledge the truth of it. For, to begin with, it was four bells in the first watch—that is to say, ten o’clock p.m.; then it also happened to be the date of the new moon; and, finally, the ship was just then enveloped in a fog so dense that, standing against the bulwarks on one side of the deck, it was impossible to see across to the opposite rail. It was Mr. Pryce’s watch; but the skipper—Captain Rainhill—was also on deck; and together the pair assiduously promenaded the poop, to and fro, pausing for a moment to listen and peer anxiously into the thickness to windward every time that they reached the break of the poop at one end of their walk, and the stern grating at the other. Less

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