Old Jack

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Excerpt from Old Jack: A Man-of-War's South-Sea WhalerN o sooner was the news of war received on board the Syren, than everybody seemed to wake up into activity. No one had time for a moment to be idle fore or aft. The armorer's crew were employed in polishing up muskets, and pistols, and sharpening cut lasses. For hours together we were practised at the small-arms and great guns, which had never before been thought of. The gunners were busy making cartridges, the carpenters, plugs for shot-holes 5 indeed, we all felt that people should always feel that there was work to be done. We had good reason to rejoice before the cruise was up that we had not been idle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.