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Dick Leslie's Luck, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure
Author: Harry Collingwood
Illustrator: Harold Piffard
Release Date: January 27, 2009 [EBook #27909]
Language: English
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Dick Leslie's Luck, by Harry Collingwood.
CHAPTER ONE.
A MARITIME DISASTER.
The night was as dark as the inside of a cow! Mr Pryce, the chief mate of the full-rigged sailing ship Golden Fleece--outward-bound to Melbourne--was responsible for this picturesque assertion; and one had only to glance for a moment into the obscurity that surrounded the ship to acknowledge the truth of it.
For, to begin with, it was four bells in the first watch--that is to say, ten o'clock p.m.; then it also happened to be the date of the new moon; and, finally, the ship was just then enveloped in a fog so dense that, standing against the bulwarks on one side of the deck, it was impossible to see across to the opposite rail. It was Mr Pryce's watch; but the skipper--Captain Rainhill--was also on deck; and together the pair assiduously promenaded the poop, to and fro,