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The
battery and the boiler
Somewhere about the middle of this
nineteenth century, a baby boy was born on the raging sea in the midst
of a howling
tempest. That boy was the hero of this tale.
He was cradled in squalls, and nourished in squalor—a week of dirty
weather having converted the forecabin of the emigrant
ship into something like a pig-sty. Appreciating the situation, no doubt,
the baby boy began his career with a squall that
harmonised with the weather, and, as the steward remarked to the ship’s
cook, “continued for to squall straight on end all
that day and night without so much as ever takin’ breath!” It is but right
to add that the steward was prone to exaggeration.
The
big otter
Cold comfort is naturally suggested by a bed of snow, yet I
have enjoyed great comfort and much warmth in such a bed.
My friend Lumley was particularly fond of warmth and of physical ease, yet
he often expressed the opinion, with much
emphasis, that there was nothing he enjoyed so much as a night in a now-bed.
Jack Lumley was my chum—a fine manly
fellow with a vigorous will, a hardy frame, and a kindly heart.
My
Doggie and I
I possess a doggie—not a dog, observe, but a doggie. If he had been
a dog I would not have presumed to intrude him on your
notice. A dog is all very well in his way—one of the noblest of animals, I
admit, and pre-eminently fitted to be the companion
of man, for he has an affectionate nature, which man demands, and a
forgiving disposition, which man needs—but a dog, with
all his noble qualities, is not to be compared to a doggie.
Life
Boat
There existed, not many years ago, a certain street near the
banks of old Father Thames which may be described as being one
of the most modest and retiring little streets in London.
The neighbourhood around that street was emphatically dirty and noisy.
There were powerful smells of tallow and tar in the
atmosphere, suggestive of shipping and commerce. Narrow lanes opened off
the main street affording access to wharves and
warehouses, and presenting at their termini segmentary views of ships’
hulls, bowsprits, and booms, with a background of muddy
water and smoke.
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