Front matter
Reading edition
Wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates.
BY CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES
Frontispiece in Color by ANTON OTTO FISCHER
AN ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOK LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON
Copyright, 1923, By The Torbell Company (Publishers of The Open Road)
Copyright, 1923, By The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc.
Copyright, 1934, By Little, Brown and Company
All rights reserved
Twentieth Printing
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOKS ARE PUBLISHED BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
TO GEORGE W. CABLE WITH WARM ADMIRATION AND FILIAL AFFECTION
From curious old books, many of them forgotten save by students of archaic days at sea, I have taken words and phrases and incidents. The words and phrases I have put into the talk of the men of the Rose of Devon; the incidents I have shaped and fitted anew to serve my purpose.
C. B. H.
With her great sails spread she thrust her nose into the heavy swell.
CONTENTS
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I Flight 3
II A Leal Man and a Fool 11
III Two Sailors on Foot 26
IV The Girl at the Inn 35
V Sir John Bristol 45
VI The Rose of Devon 57
VII The Ship's Liar 75
VIII Storm 83
IX The Master's Guest 94
X Between Midnight and Morning 101
XI Head Winds and a Rough Sea 108
XII The Porcupine Ketch 120
XIII A Bird to Be Limed 137
XIV A Wonderful Excellent Cook 144
XV A Lonesome Little Town 158
XVI The Harbour of Refuge 171
XVII Will Canty 182
XVIII Tom Jordan's Mercy 192
XIX A Man Seen Before 198
XX A Prize for the Taking 208
XXI Ill Words Come True 215
XXII Back to the Inn 231
XXIII And Old Sir John 237
XXIV And Again the Rose of Devon 242