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
2A FEW IDIOTISMS
3I THE FOUR-MASTED CAT-BOAT
4II THE POOR WAS MAD
5III A PECULIAR INDUSTRY
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6IV GRIGGS’S MIND
7V THE SIGNALS OF GRIGGS
8VI À LA SHERLOCK HOLMES
9VII MY SPANISH PARROT
10VIII “TO MEET MR. CAVENDISH”
11IX INSTINCT SUPPLIED TO HENS
12X A SPRING IDYL
13XI AN INVERTED SPRING IDYL
14XII AT THE CHESTNUTS’ DINNER
15XIII THE ROUGH WORDS SOCIETY
16XIV A NEW USE FOR HORSES
17XV A CALCULATING BORE
18XVI AN URBAN GAME
19XVII “DE GUSTIBUS”
20XVIII “BUFFUM’S BUSTLESS BUFFERS”
21AT THE LITERARY COUNTER
22XIX “THE FATHER OF SANTA CLAUS”
23XX THE DIALECT STORE
24XXI “FROM THE FRENCH”
25XXII ON THE VALUE OF DOGMATIC UTTERANCE
26XXIII THE SAD CASE OF DEACON PERKINS
27XXIV THE MISSING-WORD BORE
28XXV THE CONFESSIONS OF A CRITIC
29XXVI HOW ’RASMUS PAID THE MORTGAGE
30XXVII ’MIDST ARMED FOES
31XXVIII AT THE SIGN OF THE CYGNET
32XXIX A SCOTCH SKETCH
33UNRELATED STORIES—RELATED
34XXX EPHRATA SYMONDS’S DOUBLE LIFE
35XXXI A STRANGER TO LUCK
36XXXII CUPID ON RUNNERS
37XXXIII MY TRUTHFUL BURGLAR
38XXXIV THE MAN WITHOUT A WATCH
39XXXV THE WRECK OF THE “CATAPULT”
40ESSAYS AT ESSAYS
41XXXVI THE BULL, THE GIRL, AND THE RED SHAWL
42XXXVII CONCERNING DISH-WASHING
43XXXVIII A PERENNIAL FEVER
44XXXIX “AMICUS REDIVIVUS”
45XL THE PROPER CARE OF FLIES
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