A Short Cruise (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Short Cruise<br><br>To a stranger who walked through the single street of Oldhaven shortly after noon on a certain day in August last past, it would have seemed as if the village was entirely deserted.<br><br>The fishing-fleet had left the harbor the day previous, and since every male inhabitant between the ages of ten and sixty was a member of the fleet, there were none to represent the settlement, save the mothers and children; for as the girls grew toward womanhood they turned their backs on the cluster of weather-beaten houses, to become "mill-hands' in the noisy factories a dozen miles inland.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.