Ben Burton Contributor(s): W. H. G. Kingston, H. G. Kingston (Author), W. H. G. Kingston (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421847698 ISBN-13: 9781421847696 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: Dick Burton, you're a daddy! Polly's been and got a baby for you, old boy! exclaimed several voices, as the said Dick mounted the side of the old "Boreas," on the books of which ship he was rated as a quarter-master, he having just then returned from a pleasant little cutting-out expedition, where he had obtained, besides honour and glory, a gash on the cheek, a bullet through the shoulder, and a prong from a pike in the side. "Me a what?" he inquired, bending his head forward with a look of incredulity, and mechanically hitching up his trousers. "Me a daddy? On course it's a boy? Polly wouldn't go for to get a girl, a poor little helpless girl, out in these outlandish parts." |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
Dewey: 823 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.99 lbs) 248 pages |
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Publisher Description: Dick Burton, you're a daddy Polly's been and got a baby for you, old boy exclaimed several voices, as the said Dick mounted the side of the old "Boreas," on the books of which ship he was rated as a quarter-master, he having just then returned from a pleasant little cutting-out expedition, where he had obtained, besides honour and glory, a gash on the cheek, a bullet through the shoulder, and a prong from a pike in the side. "Me a what?" he inquired, bending his head forward with a look of incredulity, and mechanically hitching up his trousers. "Me a daddy? On course it's a boy? Polly wouldn't go for to get a girl, a poor little helpless girl, out in these outlandish parts." |