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Title: Marmaduke Merry
A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days

Author: William H. G. Kingston

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21468]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Marmaduke Merry, A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days, by William H
G Kingston.

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This is quite a long book, but it is full of action, and in between the
actions there are tales being told about even more action and
interesting situations, rather in the style of Captain Marryat.

This edition was printed by Cassell's for use as an English language
course-book. At the end of the book is printed a sixteen-page set of
questions and exercises to guide pupils into learning how to read and
appreciate the book better. I do wish that more books were printed with
such an appendix, as this one, at any rate, was very well-constructed.

The only quibble we have about the way Cassell's laid out the book is
the amazing amount of inconsistency in the hyphenation, but we believe
we have detected most of the instances, and put them right.

While Kingston was a devout Christian, he does not over-lard the book
with piety, though as usual he puts in a big chunk of it near the end.

You'll enjoy reading or listening to this book.

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MARMADUKE MERRY, A TALE OF NAVAL ADVENTURES IN BYGONE DAYS, BY WILLIAM H
G KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

I belong to the family of the Merrys of Leicestershire. Our chief
characteristic was well suited to our patronymic. "Merry by name and
merry by nature," was a common saying among us. Indeed, a more
good-natured, laughing, happy set of people it would be difficult to
find. Right jovial was the rattle of tongues and the cachinnation which
went forward whenever we were assembled together either at breakfast or
dinner or supper; our father and mother setting us the example, so that
we began the day with a he