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    Ship-Bored

    By Julian Street

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ship-Bored" by Julian Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547345473
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      Ship-Bored - Julian Street

      Julian Street

      Ship-Bored

      EAN 8596547345473

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      TO BOOTH TARKINGTON

      PREFACE

      SHIP-BORED

      NEW YORK

      JOHN LANE COMPANY

      MCMXIV

      Copyright, 1911

      By The Ridgway Company

      Copyright, 1912

      By John Lane Company

      TO

      BOOTH TARKINGTON

      Table of Contents

      "Loda il mare da terra."

      THE SPOTTER IS A "PERFECT DEAR,"

      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)

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      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 there are? Why do people send the medicines to me? Why do perfect strangers assume that, because I have taken up the task of muck-raking the Atlantic Ocean, I am in need of antidotes for mal de mer? Even suppose that I do suffer thus at sea? Is it anybody else's business—or luncheon?

      All great literary works are born of suffering. Stop the suffering and you stop the author. Yet people keep on sending pills to me—each pill an added insult if you choose to take it that way.

      But I

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