Jack Harkaways Adventures in America And Cuba Being a Continuation of Adventur
Jack Harkaways Adventures in America And Cuba Being a Continuation of Adventur
Hemyng Bracebridge
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I'm not an old man, and I shouldn't like to be confined in Moleland all my life. " " ' We are monarchs of all we survey, ' " observed Mole, " 'our will there is noi*e to dispute, ' as Cowper sang of Alexander Selkirk, the ;rototype of Robinson Crusoe. " "I don't care about being Crusoed. I don't want too much Crusoe, but just enough. " ' ' How much is that ? " " I could do with a month no more, " replied Pike. The old man sighed deeply. "At first, "he exclaimed, "I used to cherish a hope that a... passing ship would take me off. " " Have you never seen a vessel? " asked Mole. ' ' Not one, sir, during the whole of the seven years I have been marooned here. " Mr. Mole pricked up his ears. He knew enough of nautical life to be aware that to be marooned, was for a man to be placed purposely on a 208 JA CK HARKA WA Y AND HIS SON'S desert island, as a punishment for some crime he had committed on board his ship. The officers and crew decline to hand him over to the authorities when they reach port.
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