Little Miss Grouch

ISBN-13: 9781540451996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 152 str.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Opis

Show Excerpt d the Tyro of himself, as he watched the forlorn little figure out of sight, "what have I let myself in for this time?" With a view to gathering information about the functions, habits, and capacities of a pilot-boat, he started down to the office and was seized upon the companionway by a grizzled and sunbaked man of fifty who greeted him joyously. "Sandy Is it yourself? Well met to you " "Hello, Dr. Alderson," returned the young man with warmth. "Going over? What luck for me " "Why? Need a chaperon?" "A cicerone, anyway. It's my first trip, and I don't know a soul aboard." "Oh, you'll know plenty before we're over. A maiden voyager is a sort of pet aboard ship, particularly if he's an unattached youth. My first was thirty years ago. This is my twenty-seventh." "You must know all about ships, then. Tell me about the pilot." "What about him? He's usually a gay old salt who hasn't been out of sight of land for--" "That isn't what I want to know. Do