An Old Man-of-War's-Man's Yarn

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Excerpt from An Old Man-of-War's-Man's Yarn: Dedicated (by Kind Permission) To Charles Dickens, Esq. It has occurred to me that my readers - presuming I have any - would, to a certain extent, feel interested in the facts of this story: they may be informed in a few words. I was returning one afternoon, some fifteen years ago, from bathing, at a place called Dumpton, near Ramsgate, when, as I approached the East Cliff, I fell in with an old man sitting by the wayside offering pipe-lights for sale. He gave me "Good-day" as I came up, and we entered into conversation. He told me (I afterwards ascertained every particular was true) that he was nearly ninety years of age, that he had been fifty years afloat, that he had two sons in the Erebus with Sir John Franklin, that their half-pay had been stopped on the presumption of their being dead, and that they had not been heard of for years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.