Poor Jack (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515284161)

I have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord 1786, for more than once I put the question to my father, and he invariably made the same reply: "Why, Jack, you were launched a few months before the Druids were turned over to the Melpomene." I have since ascertained that this remarkable event occurred in January 1787. But my father always reckoned in this way: if you asked him when such an event took place, he would reply, so many years or months after such a naval engagement or remarkable occurrence; as, for instance, when I one day inquired how many years he had served the King, he responded, "I came into the sarvice a little afore the battle of Bunker's Hill, in which we licked the Americans clean out of Boston." (I have since heard a different version of the result of this battle.) As for Anno Domini, he had no notion of it whatever.

Author: Frederick Marryat
ISBN-10: 1515284166
ISBN-13: 9781515284161
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2015
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.28d