Noah's Ark

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Excerpt from Noah's Ark: A Novel The Blue Peter Was Flying Above The "Dido." It was scarcely necessary, for her approaching departure was obvious. She lay beside a wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay, and the wharf was thronged with people. The blue sky of Sydney arched the scene. Cranes, whose actions were like the intelligent actions of humans, were picking up nets full of luggage and placing them in the hold. Not always neatly or gently, and so again displaying a human character. Photographers had their cameras levelled, hawkers were selling reels of coloured streamers, women were smiling fixedly, men were stolid. On ship and on shore many were wearying, for long-drawn farewells are a tiring business. At length a coloured reel was thrown aboard. That, thank God, was the beginning of the end! The boatswain was standing idly by a companion-ladder connecting the promenade deck with the after well-deck. He was a well-grown man of audacious appearance, of slack, careless carriage, but nautically graceful. "A blade" a woman in the steerage had already privately called him. He was clothed in an emphatic masculinity which no woman could miss. 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.