Jacob Faithful (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440077401
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Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Excerpt from Jacob Faithful My father's pipe, literally and metaphorically, was never put out. He had a few apophthegms which brought every disaster to a happy conclusion and, as he seldom or never indulged in words, these sayings were deeply impressed upon my infant memory. One was, It'r no marrying; wb'at'r done can't be be/ped. When once these words escaped his lips, the subject was never renewed. Nothing appeared to move him. The adjurations of those employed in the other lighters, barges, vessels, and boats of every description, who were contending with us for the extra foot of water, as we drifted up or down with the tide, affected him not, further than an extra column or two of smoke rising from the bowl of his pi'pe. To my mother, he used but one expression, T aka z't coolly but it always had the contrary effect with my mother, as it put her more m a passion. It was like pouring oil upon flame, never theless, the advice was good, had it ever been followed. Another favourite expression of my father' s when anything went wrong, and which was of the same pattern as the rest of his philosophy, was, Better luck next time. These aphorisms were deeply impressed upon my memory'; I continually recalled them to mind, and thus I became a philosopher long before my wise teeth were in embryo, or I had even shed the first set with which kind Nature presents. Us, that in the petticoat age we may fearlessly indulge 1n lollipop. 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.