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    Ship-Bored

    By Julian Street

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Ship-Bored - Julian Street

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ship-Bored, by Julian Street, Illustrated by May Wilson Preston

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Ship-Bored

      Author: Julian Street

      Release Date: February 11, 2008 [eBook #24580]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHIP-BORED***

      E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Janet Blenkinship,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      SHIP-BORED

      By The Same Author

      THE NEED OF CHANGE.

      Cloth. 50 cents net

      PARIS À LA CARTE.

      Cloth. 60 cents net

      MY ENEMY—THE MOTOR.

      Cloth. 50 cents net

      SHIP-BORED

      By

      JULIAN STREET

      AUTHOR OF THE NEED OF CHANGE, ETC.

      With Illustrations by

      MAY WILSON PRESTON

      NEW YORK

      JOHN LANE COMPANY

      MCMXIV

      Copyright, 1911

      By The Ridgway Company

      Copyright, 1912

      By John Lane Company

      TO

      BOOTH TARKINGTON

      "Loda il mare da terra."

      THE SPOTTER IS A PERFECT DEAR, AND THAT IS HOW YOUR WIFE COMES TO LOSE TWELVE DRESSES AND A TWENTY-THOUSAND-DOLLAR NECKLACE AND HAVE HYSTERICS ON THE DOCK.

      (See page 47)

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Ship-Bored originally appeared in Everybody's Magazine.

      PREFACE

      Whatever the effect of Ship-Bored upon others, its publication has exerted a very definite effect upon me, or rather upon the character of my daily mail. Instead of letters the postman now leaves little packages containing pills which, according to the senders, will prevent the casting of bread upon the waters.

      It is astonishing to learn how many sea-sick remedies there are. Looking at the bottles and the boxes piled, each morning by my breakfast plate, I sometimes wonder if there aren't as many remedies as sufferers.

      But suppose

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