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Redburn. His First Voyage: (Herman Melville Classics Collection)

Redburn. His First Voyage: (Herman Melville Classics Collection)

Melville, Herman

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1512348899
ISBN13: 9781512348897
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 23 2015
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; it's just the thing-take it, it will save the expense of another. You see, it's quite warm; fine long skirts, stout horn buttons, and plenty of pockets. Out of the goodness and simplicity of his heart, thus spoke my elder brother to me, upon the eve of my departure for the seaport. And, Wellingborough, he added, since we are both short of money, and you want an outfit, and I Have none to give, you may as well take my fowling-piece along, and sell it in New York for what you can get.-Nay, take it; it's of no use to me now; I can't find it in powder any more. I was then but a boy. Some time previous my mother had removed from New York to a pleasant village on the Hudson River, where we lived in a small house, in a quiet way. Sad disappointments in several plans which I had sketched for my future life; the necessity of doing something for myself, united to a naturally roving disposition, had now conspired within me, to send me to sea as a sailor. For months previous I had been poring over old New York papers, delightedly perusing the long columns of ship advertisements, all of which possessed a strange, romantic charm to me. Over and over again I devoured such announcements as the following

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