. JACK COME HOME AGAIX. holding, very rightly, that life without experiences was not worth the having. And of experiences he had plenty. He lived like a lord so long as his money lasted, and when he went afloat again he was shipped in a lordly state of drunkenness ; but once the anchor was weighed his was a slave's existence. Not that any word of his hardships escaped him ; he took them as inseparable from a seaman's life ; and, indeed, once the first rapture of his home-coming was over, the sea unfailingly claimed him again. And when ashore all his talk was of battles and storms ; he damned B
. JACK COME HOME AGAIX. holding, very rightly, that life without experiences was not worth the having. And of experiences he had plenty. He lived like a lord so long as his money lasted, and when he went afloat again he was shipped in a lordly state of drunkenness ; but once the anchor was weighed his was a slave's existence. Not that any word of his hardships escaped him ; he took them as inseparable from a seaman's life ; and, indeed, once the first rapture of his home-coming was over, the sea unfailingly claimed him again. And when ashore all his talk was of battles and storms ; he damned Bonaparte, believed that one Englishman could thrash three " darned parleyvoos," despised land-lubbers,
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