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Poor Jack : 9781515284161
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9781515284161
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9781515284161
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Poor Jack : 9781515284161
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I have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord 1786, for more than once I put the question to my father, and he invariably made the same reply: "Why, Jack, you were launched a few months before the Druids were turned over to the Melpomene." I have since ascertained that this remarkable event occurred in January 1787. But my father always reckoned in this way: if you asked him when such an event took place, he would reply, so many years or months after such a naval engagement or remarkable occurrence; as, for instance, when I one day inquired how many years he had served the King, he responded, "I came into the sarvice a little afore the battle of Bunker's Hill, in which we licked the Americans clean out of Boston." (I have since heard a different version of the result of this battle.) As for Anno Domini, he had no notion of it whatever.
| Author: Frederick Marryat |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jul 29, 2015 |
| Number of Pages: 132 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1515284166 |
| ISBN-13: 9781515284161 |