Twentieth Printing
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TO
GEORGE W. CABLE
WITH WARM ADMIRATION AND FILIAL AFFECTION
From curious old books, many of them forgotten save
by students of archaic days at sea, I have taken
words and phrases and incidents. The words and phrases
I have put into the talk of the men of the Rose of Devon;
the incidents I have shaped and fitted anew to serve my purpose.
C. B. H.