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Title: The Story of Nelson
also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: November 16, 2007 [EBook #23504]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

The Story of Nelson, and other stories, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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There are three short stories in this little book. The first thing to
say is that the book has no page-numbers, which must be just about
unique. I cannot imagine what the point of this is.

The three stories are of roughly equal length. The first is a story
about Nelson purporting to have been written by an admirer whose work at
sea kept him near to Nelson.

The second story is about farming in the Red River area of North America
in the late 1700s or early 1800s. The weather, with flooding of the
river, and the red Indians, made it all rather difficult.

The third story is about a young chap who while no more than fourteen
distinguishes himself in battle, and is immediately promoted to
midshipman. His bravery and seamanship win him several battles, with
their prizes, and he is promoted till he is an Admiral with a baronetcy.
Of course there are some jealous people on the way. But it is a pretty
tale, with a pretty girl to be married.

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THE STORY OF NELSON; THE GRATEFUL INDIAN; THE BOATSWAIN'S SON; BY W.H.G.
KINGSTON.

VOLUME ONE, CHAPTER ONE.

THE STORY OF NELSON.

My great ambition as a boy was to be a sailor; the idea of becoming one
occupied my thoughts by day and influenced my dreams by night. I
delighted in reading naval histories and exploits and tales of the sea,
and I looked upon Rodney, Howe, Nelson, and Saint Vincent, as well as
Duncan, Collingwood, Exmouth, and Sir Sidney Smith, as far greater men,
and more worthy of admiration, than all the heroes of antiquity put
together--an opinion which I hold even to the present day, and wh