Blue Blood and Red

Excerpt from Blue Blood and RedWith an itch for adventure in his own veins, Neal early decided that only timid people remained ashore, or old for gotten persons, like his grandfather Alexander Carmichael, who lived in a pillared house built by a prosperous sea faring ancestor towards the middle oi the eighteenth cen tury. This ancient homestead overlooked the bay, which had more ships upon it than a boy had the patience to count on sunny summer afternoons, when joy was calling from all quarters; from the hill moors; from the sea marshes; from the shaded benches of an old, old Mariner's Rest, where ancient gentlemen home from the sea could be prevailed upon to tell shivery tales of black ships rotting their way to the bottom of the ocean, or battening upon feebler craft in the name of skull and crossbones.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.