. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. calls meTommy) always wished to go to sea, though his fatherand I were never very partial to the idea. However, hewas so bent upon being a sailor that we consented atlast, and he has just gone as a midshipman (ahem !) onthe Albatross. She will be sure to say on theAlbatross ; all shore people do, though nothing soundsmore lubberly to a seaman; so make a note of it, all youcardboard sailors and would-be nautical swells ; alwayssay ill a ship, or, for the matter of that, anything elsethat floats, bar a
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. calls meTommy) always wished to go to sea, though his fatherand I were never very partial to the idea. However, hewas so bent upon being a sailor that we consented atlast, and he has just gone as a midshipman (ahem !) onthe Albatross. She will be sure to say on theAlbatross ; all shore people do, though nothing soundsmore lubberly to a seaman; so make a note of it, all youcardboard sailors and would-be nautical swells ; alwayssay ill a ship, or, for the matter of that, anything elsethat floats, bar a raft. Then perhaps the dad will shove his oar into theconversation, opining that we are well out of the coldlatitudes, and proceeding to draw a purely imaginary SPUN YARN AND SPINDRIFT. picture of his darling son for the edification of hislisteners, something in this way: Now that the ship iswell out of this horribly cold, foggy climate. Tommy will no doubt wear thatvery pietty white uniformof his—the one, my dear,that he wore at the fancydress ball on the eveningbefore his ship TOM]\iy AS THFY FANCIED HE WOULD BE
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