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Title: Ship-Bored

Author: Julian Street

Release Date: February 11, 2008 [eBook #24580]

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SHIP-BORED

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_By The Same Author_

THE NEED OF CHANGE.
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PARIS A LA CARTE.
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MY ENEMY--THE MOTOR.
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SHIP-BORED

by

JULIAN STREET

Author of "The Need of Change," Etc.

With Illustrations by May Wilson Preston

[Illustration: THE SPOTTER IS A "PERFECT DEAR," AND THAT IS HOW YOUR
WIFE COMES TO LOSE TWELVE DRESSES AND A TWENTY-THOUSAND-DOLLAR NECKLACE
AND HAVE HYSTERICS ON THE DOCK.

(_See page 47_)]

[Illustration]

New York
John Lane Company
MCMXIV

Copyright, 1911
by The Ridgway Company

Copyright, 1912
by John Lane Company

TO
BOOTH TARKINGTON

"_Loda il mare da terra._"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The spotter is "a perfect dear", and that
is how your wife comes to lose twelve
dresses and a twenty-thousand-dollar
necklace and have hysterics on the
dock _Frontispiece_

Small wonder that you hand a dollar to
your sister and kiss the porter 14

I recognise the blonde divinity. Her eyes
are closed, her hat on one ear, and she is
wrapped like a mummy 18

How the ship rolls and lurches