The Four-Masted Cat Boat, and Other Truthful Tales
By Charles Battell Loomis
Length3h 35m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The sea lay low in the offing, and as far as the eye could reach, immense white-caps rode upon it as quietly as pond-lilies on the bosom of a lake. Fleecy clouds dotted the sky, and far off toward the horizon a full-rigged four-masted cat-boat lugged and luffed in the calm evening breezes. Her sails were piped to larboard, starboard, and port; and as she rolled steadily along in the heavy wash and undertow, her companion-light, already kindled, shed a delicate ray across the bay to where the dull red disk of the sun was dipping its colors. Her cordage lay astern, in the neat coils that seamen know so well how to make. The anchor had been weighed this half-hour, and the figures put down in the log; for Captain Bliffton was not a man to put off doing anything that lay in the day's watch. Away to eastward, two tiny black clouds stole along as if they were diffident strangers in the sky, and were anxious to be gone. Now and again came the report of some sunset gun from the forts that lined the coast, and sea-robins flew with harsh cries athwart the sloop of fishing-boats that were beating to windward with gaffed topsails. "Davy Jones'll have a busy day to-morrow," growled Tom Bowsline, the first boatswain's mate. "Meaning them clouds is windy?" answered the steward, with a glance to leeward.""
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
24XXI “FROM THE FRENCH”
2A FEW IDIOTISMS
25XXII ON THE VALUE OF DOGMATIC UTTERANCE
3I THE FOUR-MASTED CAT-BOAT
26XXIII THE SAD CASE OF DEACON PERKINS
4II THE POOR WAS MAD
27XXIV THE MISSING-WORD BORE
5III A PECULIAR INDUSTRY
28XXV THE CONFESSIONS OF A CRITIC
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6IV GRIGGS’S MIND
29XXVI HOW ’RASMUS PAID THE MORTGAGE
7V THE SIGNALS OF GRIGGS
30XXVII ’MIDST ARMED FOES
8VI À LA SHERLOCK HOLMES
31XXVIII AT THE SIGN OF THE CYGNET
9VII MY SPANISH PARROT
32XXIX A SCOTCH SKETCH
10VIII “TO MEET MR. CAVENDISH”
33UNRELATED STORIES—RELATED
11IX INSTINCT SUPPLIED TO HENS
34XXX EPHRATA SYMONDS’S DOUBLE LIFE
12X A SPRING IDYL
35XXXI A STRANGER TO LUCK
13XI AN INVERTED SPRING IDYL
36XXXII CUPID ON RUNNERS
14XII AT THE CHESTNUTS’ DINNER
37XXXIII MY TRUTHFUL BURGLAR
15XIII THE ROUGH WORDS SOCIETY
38XXXIV THE MAN WITHOUT A WATCH
16XIV A NEW USE FOR HORSES
39XXXV THE WRECK OF THE “CATAPULT”
17XV A CALCULATING BORE
40ESSAYS AT ESSAYS
18XVI AN URBAN GAME
41XXXVI THE BULL, THE GIRL, AND THE RED SHAWL
19XVII “DE GUSTIBUS”
42XXXVII CONCERNING DISH-WASHING
20XVIII “BUFFUM’S BUSTLESS BUFFERS”
43XXXVIII A PERENNIAL FEVER
21AT THE LITERARY COUNTER
44XXXIX “AMICUS REDIVIVUS”
22XIX “THE FATHER OF SANTA CLAUS”
45XL THE PROPER CARE OF FLIES
23XX THE DIALECT STORE
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