Lapstone, or the Sailor Turned Shoemaker (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lapstone, or the Sailor Turned ShoemakerThe stories themselves which Old Lapstone is represented as relating to the boys in this volume are imaginary. Lapstone made them up to amuse the boys, and to reward them for work ing for him in his garden. But all the accounts which they con tain in respect to life at sea, and the usages and practices of sea faring men, and all the descriptions relating to ships, and pilots, and light-houses, and soundings, and calms, and storms, and other such topics, are strictly true'; and they will convey to the readers a great amount of useful information, if they read the book atten tively, and with a desire to understand and remember what they learn by the perusal of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.