The book "captains Courageous" a Story of the Grand Banks was written by author Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 Here you can read free online of "captains Courageous" a Story of the Grand Banks book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is "captains Courageous" a Story of the Grand Banks a good or bad book?
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" Dan chuckled, but the chuckle ended in a snore. It was thick weather outside, with a rising wind, and the elder men stretched their watches. The hours struck clear in the cabin ; the nosing bows slapped and scuffled with the seas; the foc'sle stove-pipe hissed and sputtered as the spray caught it ; and the boys slept on, while Disko, Long Jack, Tom Piatt, and Uncle Salters, each in turn, stumped aft to look at the wheel, forward to see that the anchor held, or to veer out a little more cable ...against chafing, with a glance at the dim anchor-light between each round. CHAPTER IV HARVEY waked to find the -first half" at breakfast, the foc'sle door drawn to a crack, and every square inch of the schooner singing its own tune. The black bulk of the cook balanced behind the tiny galley over the glare of the stove, and the pots and pans in the pierced wooden board before it jarred and racketed to each plunge. Up and up the foc^sle climbed, yearning and surging and quivering, and then, with a clear, sickle-like swoop, came down into the seas.
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