Frederick Marryat
Poor Jack
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform July 15, 2014)
I have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord 1786, for more than once I put the question to my father, and he invariably made the same reply: “Why, Jack, you were launched a few months before the Druids were turned over to the Melpomene.” I have since ascertained that this remarkable event occurred in January 1787. But my father always reckoned in this way: if you asked him when such an event took place, he would reply, so many years or months after such a naval engagement or remarkable occurrence; as, for instance, when I one day inquired how many years he had served the King, he responded, “I came into the sarvice a little afore the battle of Bunker’s Hill, in which we licked the Americans clean out of Boston.” (I have since heard a different version of the result of this battle.) As for Anno Domini, he had no notion of it whatever.
- ISBN
- 1500479748 / 9781500479749
- Pages
- 120
- Weight
- 13.1 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 0.3 in.
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