. Romances of Mobile . IF^ i .aC^ Court House, Mobile 51. AN EPIC OF THE SEA Oh, sing a song of a summer sea And the Jove of a man and maid,When the God of Things As They Ought To Be A curious prank had the sea arose in a howling storm And caught those twain in his married them safe in the early morn And punished a father-in-law. ■—Songs of the Gulf To bring to an end these little tales, it has been thoughtbest to reserve for the last the strangest of them all, whichconcerns itself with the love of a man and a maid, which hasever been the most popular of all writings of eith
. Romances of Mobile . IF^ i .aC^ Court House, Mobile 51. AN EPIC OF THE SEA Oh, sing a song of a summer sea And the Jove of a man and maid,When the God of Things As They Ought To Be A curious prank had the sea arose in a howling storm And caught those twain in his married them safe in the early morn And punished a father-in-law. ■—Songs of the Gulf To bring to an end these little tales, it has been thoughtbest to reserve for the last the strangest of them all, whichconcerns itself with the love of a man and a maid, which hasever been the most popular of all writings of either fact orfiction. Not so many years ago there lived in Mobile a young fellowwho had since boyhood decided to follow the sea, and to thisend he studied navigation with such good effect that when buttwenty-three he was the first officer of a coastwise vessel ofno mean tonnage. A captains billet was one of his ambitions,but he also fostered another, and that was to marry a decidedlylovely Mobile girl, whose family were much better off finan-cially tha
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