QUARTERDECK AND FOK’SLE
STORIES OF THE SEA
BY
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
Author of Young Heroes of Our Navy, Children of Destiny, Maid Marian, Throckmorton, etc.
ILLUSTRATED
BOSTON AND CHICAGO
W. A. WILDE COMPANY
Copyright, 1895.
By W. A. WILDE & CO.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS.
A QUARTERDECK STORY. CHAPTER PAGE I. [The Capture of the Fort] 9 II. [Young Brydell’s Chums] 21 III. [Brydell’s First Failure] 33 IV. [Brydell’s Second Failure] 45 V. [Striking Out for Himself] 57 VI. [A New Life] 71 VII. [The Summer Cruise] 87 VIII. [A Question of Honor] 100 IX. [Grubb’s Honorable Discharge] 112 X. [In Command of the Squadron] 120 XI. [A Safe Return] 135 XII. [Brydell Redeems His Promise] 139 A FOK’SLE STORY. CHAPTER PAGE I. [On Board the Diomede] 151 II. [A Gallant Rescue] 163 III. [Dicky’s Patriotism] 175 IV. [An Important Errand] 185 V. [An Adventure with the Redcoats] 194 VI. [Jack Bell’s Secret] 205 VII. [General Prescott’s Capture] 214 VIII. [Dicky’s New Song] 223 IX. [Dicky Enlists] 236 X. [An Unexpected Encounter] 245 XI. [The Enemy Outwitted] 258
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE [“I was just trying to scare Grubb” (Frontispiece)] 14 [“Brydell, with Atkins, a very Smart Sailor, was at the Wheel”] 95 [“Brydell got the thumbed Bible and read to him”]117 [“‘Look out, you Young Rebel,’ called out the Sergeant”]197 [“The Yankees they have come and stolen Prescott from his Bed”]232