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Title: Poor Jack

Author: Frederick Marryat

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Language: English

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POOR JACK

by

CAPTAIN MARRYAT

Works of Captain Marryat, Volume Ten

With Illustrations

[Illustration: POOR JACK--FRONTISPIECE--Marryat Vol. X.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME TEN

FRONTISPIECE--Poor Jack
Fisher's Alley
I summoned all my strength, and called out long before we floated past her
Anderson reading the Bible to Jack
Anderson reading the news of the Battle of the Nile
Jack's Father landing after the Battle of the Nile
Jack in Nanny's Room
Jack and Bramble aboard the Indiaman
The Fore-peak Yarn
"How's her head, Tom?"
Bramble saving Bessie
Jack heaving the lead
Nanny relating her story
Jack and his Father under the Colonnade
A Surprise
Bramble and Jack carried into a French Port
The Leith Smack and the Privateer
The Arrival of the Privateer at Lanion
The Prison
Jack a Prisoner
The Escape
Wreck of the Galley
We found both Bramble and Bessy clinging to the rope
Bramble had knelt by the bedside, and was evidently in prayer
I went down to the beach, ... and I was soon on board
"Mr. Saunders, ... may I ask where you procured this spy-glass?"
Sir J. O'Connor and Mrs. St. Felix
I met face to face a Frenchman

POOR JACK

CHAPTER ONE

In which, like most People who tell their own Stories, I begin with
the Histories of other People.

I have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord
1786, for more than once I put the question to my father, and he
invariably made