CHAPTER I.
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Project -- On the Stocks -- Profile -- Afloat alone
-- Smart lads -- Swinging -- Anchors -- Happy boys -- Sea Reach -- Good
looks -- Peep below -- Important trifles -- In the well -- Chart --
Watch on deck -- Eating an egg -- Storm sail
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CHAPTER II.
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Sheerness -- Governor -- Trim -- Earthquake -- Upset
-- Wooden legs -- On the Goodwin -- Cuts and scars -- Crossing the
Straits -- The ground at Boulogne -- Night music -- Sailors' maps --
Ship's papers -- Weather -- Toilette -- Section
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CHAPTER III.
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Russian lamp -- Breakfast -- Store rooms --
Mast-light -- Run down -- Rule of the road -- Signal thoughts --
Sinking sands -- Pilot caution -- French coast
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CHAPTER IV.
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Thunder -- In the squall -- The dervish -- Sailing
consort -- Poor little boy ! -- Grateful presents -- The dingey's
mission -- Remedy -- Rise and work
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CHAPTER V.
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Cool -- Fish wives -- Iron-bound coast -- Etretat --
Ripples -- Pilot Book -- Hollow water -- Undecided -- Stomach law --
Becalmed -- Cape la Hève -- The breeze -- Havre de Grace -- Crazy
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CHAPTER VI.
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The Seine -- A wetting -- Pump -- Locks -- Long
reach -- Rouen -- Steering -- A mistake -- Horny hands -- Henpecked --
British flag -- The captain's wife
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CHAPTER VII.
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Dull reading -- Chain boat -- Kedging -- St... Cloud
-- Training -- Dogs -- Wrong colours -- My policeman -- Yankee notion
-- Red, White, and Blue
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CHAPTER VIII.
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Presents -- The Emperor -- Anecdote -- The
Abbé in London -- A vert -- Singing girl -- English bird --
Model -- Old friend -- The Turks -- Guzzling -- The friture
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... 107
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CHAPTER IX.
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Paris Regatta -- Absentees -- Novelties -- New
Brunswickers -- Steam yachts -- Canoe race -- Canoe chase -- Entangled
-- M. Forcat -- Challenge
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... 123
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CHAPTER X.
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Dawn music -- Cleared for action -- Statistics --
Blue Peter -- Passing bridges -- A gale -- A shave -- Provisions --
Toilette -- An upset -- Last bridge -- A peep below -- Cooking inside
-- Preserved provisions -- Soups
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CHAPTER XI.
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High tides -- Seine pilots -- To bed -- Terrible
scene -- A tumble in -- In the swell -- Novel steering -- The Empress
-- Puzzled -- Night thoughts -- The start -- A draft on the deck --
Balloon jib -- On the deep
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... 154
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CHAPTER XII.
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Nodding -- Prancing -- First thoughts -- Present
crisis -- Midchannel thoughts -- Battle -- Church
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... 168
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CHAPTER XIII.
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Half-seas over -- Thick night -- Risky -- Reckless
-- Tied in -- Lying to -- Land ahead -- Scottish replies -- Sleep
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... 177
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CHAPTER XIV.
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Heavy sea -- Isle of Wight -- The commodore -- A
glance at gear -- Bow -- Running gear -- Sisterhooks -- Horse -- Tiller
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... 187
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CHAPTER XV.
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Ducklings -- Victoria Park -- Yachtsmen -- Cowes --
Floating family -- The 'Zara' -- Lifeboats -- Wrecked -- Mop -- An odd
story -- The law of anchors -- Experiments -- The Royal yacht
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CHAPTER XVI.
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The life-raft -- A travelled hen -- Prussian
adventure -- American -- Going up stairs -- Portsmouth -- Fair visitor
-- Cruises -- A review -- Questions
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... 213
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CHAPTER XVII.
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Continental sailors -- Mal de Mer -- Steam launches
-- Punt chase -- The ladies -- Fireworks -- Catastrophe -- Impudence --
Drifting yachts -- Tool chests -- Spectre ship -- Where am I? -- Canoe
v. yawl -- Selfish -- Risk and toil -- Ridicule
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CHAPTER XVIII.
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Bedtime -- A trance -- Thunderings -- Charts --
Light dims -- Night flies -- First running -- Newhaven -- On the
gridiron -- Mr. Smith -- Tumbledown walls -- Derelict
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CHAPTER XIX.
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Tide waiter -- Beachy Head -- Night Ghost -- Man
overboard -- Ship ahoy ! -- Overfalls -- Thoughts -- Thunder -- A
question -- Day -- Good-bye, dingey ! -- Dungeness -- A nap
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CHAPTER XX.
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Di Vernon -- The Gull light -- Naked Warriors --
Monkey -- Medway -- Eyes right! -- Old Things -- Barges -- Street boys
-- Young Skipper -- Scene by night -- Barge lingo -- Holy Haven --
Sailing solicitor -- Margate -- French bathers -- The Empress at sea --
The three ships -- Worcester -- Swedish lesson -- English boys -- A
prophecy -- Request -- Reply -- The 'Dolphin'
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APPENDIX.
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Boys'
Training Ships -- The Warspite -- The Akbar -- The Cornwall -- The
Conway -- The Worcester -- The Clarence -- The Indefatigable -- The
Chichester -- The Havannah -- The Endeavour, Land Ship -- The
Southampton -- Training Ship for Yarmouth
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The Paris Regatta
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... 322
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The
Bible at the Exhibition
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... 326
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The Rob Roy
Cuisine
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... 329
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The Canoe Club
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... 331
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