Excerpt from A Sea-Lawyer's Log N rhen the tedious journey from Manchester had ended and we were finally deposited upon the station at Southward Ho! Our first sensation was one of extreme disappointment. During the day our little party of ten had fully discussed the reception which we might expect to receive on arriving at our destination. The general consensus of opinion was that we would be met by a corpulent Sergeant of Marines whose ample figure and rubicund features might be ao cepted as evidence of the many years during which he had braved the battle and the breeze. We felt confident that by way of welcome he would assert that never in the course of his professional career had he set his ensanguined eyes upon such an adjectival crew of cross-eyed, splay-footed, knock kneed, lop-eared sons of misfortune, and that if Old England could produce nothing better than this, he, personally, would favour an immediate capitulation to the Kaiser. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.