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Excerpt from The Yarn of a Bucko Mate: His Adventures in Two Oceans My father, a sturdy pillar of the Baptist church, noticed that I spent a great deal of my time in the barn, and, animated by a curiosity which I should have deprecated had I known of its existence, he followed me to my sanctum. I 'was absorbed in committing to memory a stirring speech of Black beard's to his crew, before attacking a F rench cruiser of twice their own size, when, on throwing back my head in an ecstasy of martial pride to repeat the words aloud, I looked squarely into the watery blue eyes of my father. 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.