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Poor Jack

Poor Jack

Marryat, Frederick

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 172749377X
ISBN13: 9781727493771
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 26 2018
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In which, like most People who tell their own Stories, I begin with the Histories of other People. 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. As for Anno Domini, he had no notion of it whatever.

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