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The Children of the King
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Title: The Children of the King
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: February 26, 2005 [eBook #15187]
Language: English
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THE CHILDREN OF THE KING
A Tale of Southern Italy
by
F. MARION CRAWFORD
With Frontispiece
P. F. Collier & Son New York By MacMillan & Co.
1885
[Illustration: AN OLD BAREFOOTED FRIAR STOOD BESIDE HER.--Children of the King.]
Dedication
TO THE MIDDY, THE LADDIE, THE MATE AND THE MEN THE SKIPPER OF THE OLD LEONE DEDICATES THIS STORY
CHAPTER I.
Lay your course south-east half east from the Campanella. If the weather is what it should be in late summer you will have a fresh breeze on the starboard quarter from ten in the morning till four or five o'clock in the afternoon. Sail straight across the wide gulf of Salerno, and when you are over give the Licosa Point a wide berth, for the water is shallow and there are reefs along shore. Moreover there is no light on Licosa Point, and many a good ship has gone to pieces there in dark winter nights when the surf is rolling in. If t