This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... ward-room, and indeed of every mess except the midshipmen's, being perhaps disliked by these young gentlemen, for the same reason that poor cousins (as a French author observes) are ill seen by us, to wit, for approaching them too nearly in nature. This animal was distinguished, like the rest of his tribe, by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... ward-room, and indeed of every mess except the midshipmen's, being perhaps disliked by these young gentlemen, for the same reason that poor cousins (as a French author observes) are ill seen by us, to wit, for approaching them too nearly in nature. This animal was distinguished, like the rest of his tribe, by a propensity to gratuitous mischief, and one of his principal amusements in fine weather was to possess himself of a plate, cup, or saucer, which he would break to pieces in the chains, and throw overboard, watching the fragments descending through the water with infinite gratification. "This" (the reader will perhaps say) " any monkey might do;" but another of his exploits can hardly, I think, be paralleled by any fact in monkish history. This monkey was well aware of there being a large store of apples in a locker, in the ward-room; but his thievish tricks were so well known, that he was excluded from all legitimate access to it. Under these circumstances, he provided himself with a piece of wadding, and with this implement in one hand, and swinging himself from the stern gallery with the other, he broke a pane in the ward-room window with his wadding, and having carefully picked out the broken glass, introduced himself into the forbidden territory. Here, like the animal in the fable, he gorged himself so fully that he was unable to retreat. Being taken in the fact, he received the discipline of the rope's end, but derived little benefit from his chastisement. The captain, who had also suffered from his depredations, conceived the idea of a more effectual punishment; but this not only led to no reform, but was the cause of new and most ludicrous offence. He was in the habit, it seems, of stealing preserved apricots; into which a quantity...
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Good. 1825. Hardcover. Half original calf over cloth covered boards. Good copy with raised bands, attractive gilt tooling and gilted leather title label on the spine, gilt borders calf and boards, well defined edges and binding remains firm. This title often wrongly attributed to Sir John Malcolm.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
