Redburn: His First Voyage
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Chapter 1. How Wellingborough Redburn‘s Taste For The Sea...
_ CHAPTER I. HOW WELLINGBOROUGH REDBURN‘S TASTE FOR THE SEA WAS BORN AND BRED IN HIM
"Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; it‘s just the thing--take it, it will save the expense of another. You see, it‘s quite warm; fine long skirts, stout horn buttons, and plenty of pockets."
Out of the goodness and simplicity of his heart, thus spoke my elder brother to me, upon the eve of my departure for the seaport.
"And, Wellingborough," he added, "since we are both short of money, and you want an outfit, and I Have none to give, you may as well take my fowling-piece along, and sell it in New York for what you can get.--Nay, take it; it‘s of no use to me now; I can‘t find it in powder any more."
I was then but a boy. Some time previous my mother had removed from New York to a pleasant village on the Hudson River, where we lived in a small house, in a quiet way. Sad disa
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