TAILIEUCHUNG - The Wreck Of The Golden Mary (dodo Press) By Charles Dickens

It is, personally, neither Smithick, nor Watersby, that I here mention, nor was I ever acquainted with any man of either of those names, nor do I think that there has been any one of either of those names in that Liverpool House for years back. But, it is in reality the House itself that I refer to; and a wiser merchant or a truer gentleman never stepped. “My dear Captain Ravender, “ says he. “Of all the men on earth, I wanted to see you most. I was on my way to you. “ “Well! “ says I. “That. | The Wreck of the Golden Mary Charles Dickens DODO I WI PRESS The Wreck of the Golden Mary THE WRECK I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could and although I am not an educated man I am able I am thankful to say to have an intelligent interest in most things. A person might suppose from reading the above that I am in the habit of holding forth about number one. That is not the case. Just as if I was to come into a room among strangers and must either be introduced or introduce myself so I have taken the liberty of passing these few remarks simply and plainly that it may be known who and what I am. I will add no more of the sort than that my name is William George Ravender that I was born at Penrith half a year after my own father was drowned and that I am on the second day of this present blessed Christmas week of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six fifty-six years of age. When the rumour first went flying up and down that there was gold in California which as most people know was before it was discovered in the British colony of Australia I was in the West Indies trading among the Islands. Being in command and likewise part-owner of a

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