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The Flying Bo'sun: A Mystery of the Sea

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Title: The Flying Bo'sun

A Mystery of the Sea

Author: Arthur Mason

Release Date: August 24, 2012 [eBook #40572]

Language: English

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THE FLYING BO'SUN

A MYSTERY OF THE SEA

BY ARTHUR MASON

 

 

 

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1920

Copyright, 1920
by
Henry Holt and Company

DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MY MOTHER
WHOSE SYMPATHY MADE
IT POSSIBLE FOR ME
TO GO TO SEA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Off for the South Seas, with Few Clothes but a Stout Heart 3
CHAPTER II. The Storm—Tattered and Torn but Still on the Ocean 13
CHAPTER III. Beecham's Pills Are Worth a Guinea Though They Cost but Eighteen Pence 25
CHAPTER IV. Personalities—Omens and Superstitions of Old Charlie 33
CHAPTER V. The Shark—"To Hell with Shark and Ship" 44
CHAPTER VI. The Tin-Plate Fight—One-Eyed Riley Triumphs 52
CHAPTER VII. In Which the Captain Wounds His Hand 61
CHAPTER VIII. The Bo'sun Lights—The Captain's Death 68
CHAPTER IX. The Showdown—Swanson Takes the Count 76
CHAPTER X. Burial at Sea—In Which Riley Officiates 83
CHAPTER XI. Astral Influences—The Crew's Version of the Unknown 91
CHAPTER XII. The Cook's Watch—Materialism Versus Astralism 100
CHAPTER XIII. Higher Intelligence—A Visit from Out the Shadows 107
CHAPTER XIV. Christmas Day—Our Unwilling Guest the Dolphin 117
CHAPTER XV. Crimp and Sailor—The Cook's Marxian Effort 123
CHAPTER XVI. The Montana Cowboy—A Horse-Marine Adventure 130
CHAPTER XVII. The Fragrant Smell of the Alluring Palms 141
CHAPTER XVIII. Suva Harbor—The Reef and the Lighthouses 146
CHAPTER XIX. Introducing Captain Kane, Mrs. Fagan and Mrs. Fagan's Bar 151
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