Lanterna Rally

Author: Ralph Bergengren

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780331560459

Excerpt from Gentlemen All and Merry Companions Silence had settled over them for perhaps an hour ant conversation was apparently exhausted. But humanity abhors silence as nature is said to abhor a vacuum, and the ten pirates were very human. Now one of them, after an uncommonly protracted yawn, stretched arms and legs simultaneously and ejaculated Heigho But I wish I knew how to read. He was a burly caricature of a man with a large, round nose projecting like an island from a sea of red hair, neatly plaited into a number of spiky cues, which started high up on his cheeks and had led the more jocular among his companions to christen him Red Whisker. He had a roving black eye which matched well with a roving black disposition, both just now becalmed by an extreme mental weariness. At one side of him sat a comrade in a tattered blue shirt sun, wind, and rain had made it a delicate baby blue - who opened small eyes like a pig's and closed them again sleepily whenever any one spoke. On the other side of him a rambling skyscraper of a fellow with long yellow mustaches, the ends of which were in curl papers, moodily tickled a mosquito bite on his ankle with the sharp point of his cutlass. Pirates, you understand, led such an active life that a bored pirate was an especially piteous object. Presently a fourth pirate, noteworthy for a long, horse like jaw, above which his small nondescript nose seemed hardly equal to supporting the large brass nose-ring that adorned it, relit his pipe and stared vacantly over the flat, uninteresting surface of the ocean. 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.