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The Little Skipper, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: February 8, 2007 [EBook #20544]
Language: English
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The Little Skipper
A Son of a Sailor
By
G. Manville Fenn
London: Ernest Nister
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Printed in Bavaria
CHAPTER I.
The birds were singing their best one spring morning, and that means a great deal, for they can sing down in the New Forest on a sunny morning in May, and there was quite a chorus of joy to welcome the Skipper and Dot as they went out through the iron gate at the bottom of the garden.
The Skipper had on his last new suit of white duck, bound with blue, and his straw hat with the dark band bearing in gold letters "H.M.S. Flash"; a white plaited cord was round his waist, and a big pocket-knife dangled at his side. With his hat stuck back so as to show his curly brown hair, his blue and white collar over his shoulders, silk sailor-knot handkerchief, and