John Smith's Funny Adventures On a Crutch, Or the Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier After the War
The book John Smith's Funny Adventures On a Crutch, Or the Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier After the War was written by author Wilmer, Richard Hooker, 1918-, Former Owner Here you can read free online of John Smith's Funny Adventures On a Crutch, Or the Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier After the War book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is John Smith's Funny Adventures On a Crutch, Or the Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier After the War a good or bad book?
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Header, if you have not seen one, you are fortunate. If you ever start on a voyage, pray earnestly for smooth weather, and if your prayers are answered be very thankful. I retired to my room at last, and "turned in." That is the nautical phrase for " going to bed." You never hear a sailor say he will " go to bed." Ho never "goes to bed." Such an expression would sound very odd at sea. "Turn in," is the proper term there. If a sailor should hear a man talk about " going to bed," he would think t...hat man had actual- ly never been out of sight of land in his life. I "turned in," and slept. When I awoke again, the ship was tumbling about so that I wondered I had not been pitched out of my berth. Seeing one of the mates pass through the cabin, I accosted him with — ■ "How is it, without?" " Blowing a regular gale," he replied. "What time is it?" "Seven bells." 300 JOHN SMITH ON A CRUTCH. At sea, they never say eight, nine, ten, eleven, or half-past eleven o'clock. There is a large bell at the forecastle, which is tapped every half- hour.
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