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Title: The Captain's Bunk
A Story for Boys

Author: M. B. Manwell

Release Date: September 28, 2008 [EBook #26714]

Language: English

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THE CAPTAIN'S BUNK

A STORY FOR BOYS

BY

M. B. MANWELL

AUTHOR OF 'THE BENTS OF BATTERSBY,' ETC.

WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

4 BOUVERIE STREET AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD

1898

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. A PLAGUEY PAIR
II. A NOVEL TRADE
III. 'MISS THEEDORY'
IV. BINKS'S BIT O' TEACHIN'
V. BREAKERS AHEAD
VI. THE LITTLE MOTHER
VII. MUTINY AT THE BUNK
VIII. THEO'S HAVEN
IX. COMING EVENTS
X. UNDER ARREST
XI. A TANGLED WEB
XII. IN THE FAR NORTH
XIII. IN PERIL ON THE SEA
XIV. A DOOR OF ESCAPE
XV. THE BIRD-SCHOOL
XVI. THE SEAMY SIDE OF LIFE
XVII. IN THE MIRE
XVIII. IN MULLINER'S RENTS
XIX. NO PLACE LIKE HOME

THE CAPTAIN'S BUNK

CHAPTER I

A PLAGUEY PAIR

'Do the thing that's nearest,
Though it's dull at whiles.'

If anybody wanted to go down and have a look round Northbourne for
himself, it would be necessary to take a railway journey as far as
Brattlesby town, and then tramp the rest of the road, unless a friendly
chance befell the traveller of a lift in some passing vehicle.

There had never been so much as a talk of extending the railway line to
Northbourne, which was a quaint little fishing village tucked away
under the shelter of a long stretch of downs. It consisted of a few
small thatched cottages that had seated themselves, as it were, in a
semicircle round the tiny bay, to peep out from its shelter at the far,
open ocean, the highway of waters on which the outward-bound liners
loomed like grey ghostly shadows as they passed.

There were but two of what is known as gentry's houses in Northbourne.
Oddly enough, each of them finished off the half-circle of cottages,
and in that way they stared across the