Seagull Rock, Tr. by R. Black - Softcover

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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. 1874. Excerpt: ... The fishing-boats returned one by one, close behind each other. What a return, poor souls! Every arrival produced a fresh scene of fury and desolation. The fathers cursed and swore. The good minister did all he could to soothe them; and the women, bathed in tears, interceded for the little culprits whom they had themselves but a few hours before been loading with maledictions. The last to return was Legoffs father. He was the strong head of the district, a true son of Thomas I., a sea-wolf, a tamer of waves, broken in for a long time past to the treacheries and rogueries of the ocean. All the masters of boats, ready to start again, were waiting to receive his instructions. He had not set foot ashore, when the crowd flew at once to meet him. There was no hope but in him; if there were still any chances of salvation, they rested with him alone. 'Come along, Legoff, come along. There's been a pretty kettle of fish since we were away. We've no children left. They've all gone off! Come along; nobody but you can get them back for us.' He had scarcely caught their drift, when he went off like a bomb-shell. 'Ah, the rascals 1' he cried. 'D'ye think, you fellows, that I'm going out to sea again to fish up such vermin? Where d'ye suppose I should catch them? Let 'em all be drowned like field-mice; it's all the same to me, damme. It '11 be so much in our pockets. Come along, wife, come home; I'm wet and I'm hungry. I mean to have supper and then go to bed.' 'Go on, then, old man,' said young Legoff's mother, with a flood of tears. You'll find supper on the table; nobody's touched it. Since you are so hungry, you can have my share and the lad's too. I'm not hungry myself; and the lad, maybe, is dead.' 'And the best thing that could happen to him,' replied the fisherm...

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