Quarterdeck and Fok'sle, Stories of the Sea
By Molly Elliot Seawell
Length5h 20m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The friendship between Young Brydell and Grubb the marine came about in this way. One morning in May, just after Admiral Beaumont had finished the beautiful toilet he made at precisely eight o'clock every morning, he threw wide his bedroom shutters to see if the toilet of the navy yard grounds had been made too. For the admiral was possessed by a demon of neatness and order that is apt to develop in a naval officer long used to the perfect cleanliness and discipline of a man-of-war. The admiral was the tenderest-hearted old fellow in the world, but the strictest sort of martial law prevailed in the matter of tidiness in every part of the navy yard over which he exercised or could claim jurisdiction. A perpetual warfare raged between him and the nursemaids at the yard. The nursemaids would let the babies roll over on the admiral's dearly loved grass, and the sight of white dimity sunbonnets, dropped on the gravel paths, was not wholly unknown. The admiral was a bachelor of long standing and had a wholesome awe of babies and their mammas, although he ordered the babies' papas about without any awe of them whatever. In vain he tried to negotiate with the officers' wives, offering as a basis that the babies be permitted a promenade around the main walks between two and four every day, the walks to be immediately rolled afterward. The officers' wives simply laughed at him, and the babies continued to kick up the gravel, and the admiral retired completely discomfited."
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Quarterdeck and Fok'sle
14A FOK’SLE STORY.
2CHAPTER I. THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT.
15CHAPTER I. ON BOARD THE DIOMEDE.
3CHAPTER II. YOUNG BRYDELL’S CHUMS.
16CHAPTER II. A GALLANT RESCUE.
4CHAPTER III. BRYDELL’S FIRST FAILURE.
17CHAPTER III. DICKY’S PATRIOTISM.
5CHAPTER IV. BRYDELL’S SECOND FAILURE.
18CHAPTER IV. AN IMPORTANT ERRAND.
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6CHAPTER V. STRIKING OUT FOR HIMSELF.
19CHAPTER V. AN ADVENTURE WITH THE REDCOATS.
7CHAPTER VI. A NEW LIFE.
20CHAPTER VI. JACK BELL’S SECRET.
8CHAPTER VII. THE SUMMER CRUISE.
21CHAPTER VII. GENERAL PRESCOTT’S CAPTURE.
9CHAPTER VIII. A QUESTION OF HONOR.
22CHAPTER VIII. DICKY’S NEW SONG.
10CHAPTER IX. GRUBB’S HONORABLE DISCHARGE.
23CHAPTER IX. DICKY ENLISTS.
11CHAPTER X. IN COMMAND OF THE SQUADRON.
24CHAPTER X. AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER.
12CHAPTER XI. A SAFE RETURN.
25CHAPTER XI. THE ENEMY OUTWITTED.
13CHAPTER XII. BRYDELL REDEEMS HIS PROMISE.
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