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Title: The Mate of the Lily
Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book

Author: W. H. G. Kingston

Illustrator: unknown

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21469]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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The Mate of the Lily; Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book, by W H G
Kingston.

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This is another book by Kingston on the theme of a youngster whose
father has not returned from a voyage at sea, and whose mother therefore
is almost destitute, with several younger children to house and feed.
Luckily her brother Jack, the Mate of the Lily, is home, and though
pledged in marriage, offers to provide for the family, taking the
eldest, Harry, with him as an apprentice officer. They are to look for
a return cargo in the Java Seas and thereabouts, and use the
opportunity, following certain clues, to search for Captain Musgrave and
his vessel.

There are all sorts of vicissitudes, from storm, volcanoes, grounding,
and persistent attacks by the pirates that infest those seas.

Needless to say they find him, though practically at the end of his
life, from despair. On being found he recovers his spirits, and so is
brought home.

It is well-written, and full of suspense. There are other twists to the
story that I have not mentioned above, and I am sure you would enjoy
reading the book or listening to it.

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THE MATE OF THE LILY, NOTES FROM HARRY MUSGRAVE'S LOG BOOK, BY W H G
KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

Jack Radburn, mate of the "Lily," was as prime a seaman as ever broke
biscuit. Brave, generous, and true, so said all the crew, as did also
Captain Haiselden, with whom he had sailed since he had first been to
sea. Yet so modest and gentle was he on shore that, in spite of his
broad shoulders and sun-burnt brow, landsmen were apt to declare that
"butter wouldn't melt in his mouth."

A finer brig than the "Li