Epistles From Deep Seas

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Excerpt from Epistles From Deep Seas: Being Another Kettle of Sea-Pie It must not be thought, however, that the succeed ing pages were penned originally as they are pre sented here. Naturally, they were not - not all of them. In what was written on the high seas there were many forced breaks, sometimes of days - many a sudden leaving-off at the cry of Lee fore-brace Watch, there oh or the clang of the imperative bell that called to duty, many an abruptly-curtailed note, continuation of an idea, incident or piece of description, that was being made surreptitiously in the fo'c's'le during a watch on deck. Gales and fights made other interruptions. But, for the sake of continuity and appearance and out of respect for the reader's interest, most of those gaps are passed unheeded. Again, years of writing must perforce lead to a process of trimming and adding, to that which the critic calls selection. Thus it is that these epistles have been edited, more, perhaps, than was the case with My Vagabondage and Sea Pie, nearly all of which had been ofiered times out of mind to editors of magazines, etc., and not a twentieth of the whole accepted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.