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Title: The Three Midshipmen

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Illustrator: Victor Prout

Release Date: March 12, 2008 [EBook #24812]

Language: English

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The Three Midshipmen, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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The tale of the Three Midshipmen is carried on to the Three Lieutenants,
the Three Commanders, and the Three Admirals. The book starts with the
arrival of three new boys at a boarding school for young gentlemen. One
boy is English, one is Scottish, and the third is Irish. Under the
influence of various bullies and other schoolboy adversities the three
lads learn to stick together, and to look after each other. They join
the Navy, and get various postings by which from time to time they meet,
usually under the most difficult circumstances. Of course they each
survive bravely, though any of the boats' crews that they have the
honour to command are mowed down by the enemy. In other words, some of
it is pretty tall stuff, but it was very good fare for the nineteenth
century and early twentieth century English schoolboy. I can remember
these books on our 1940s school library's shelves, very well-thumbed and
many times repaired by one of the masters, whose hobby it was to run a
voluntary book-binding class. There are three parts to the book, of
which we originally published only the first two, as we were working
with a book that did not have the last part. In this new 2006 edition
you will be able to read about the Midshipmen in China. We apologise
for the delay in making good this omission.

We see no reason why you should not enjoy this book.

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THE THREE MIDSHIPMEN IN THE LEVANT, IN AFRICA AND IN CHINA, BY W.H.G.
KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

EARLY DAYS.

Ours was a capital school, though it was not a public one. It was not
far from London, so that a coach could carry us down there in little
m