A Yacht Voyage Round England

Project Gutenberg's A Yacht Voyage Round England, by W.H.G. KingstonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: A Yacht Voyage Round EnglandAuthor: W.H.G. KingstonRelease Date: April 10, 2008 [EBook #25032]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A YACHT VOYAGE ROUND ENGLAND ***Produced by Nick Hodson of London, EnglandW.H.G. Kingston"A Yacht Voyage Round England"Chapter One.The Start.We had come home from school much earlier than usual, on account of illness having broken outthere; but as none of the boys were dangerously ill, and those in the infirmary were verycomfortable, we were not excessively unhappy. I suspect that some of us wished that fever orsome other sickness would appear two or three weeks before all the holidays.However, as we had nothing to complain of at school, this, I confess, was a very unreasonablewish.The very day of our arrival home, when we were seated at dinner, and my brother Oliver and I werediscussing the important subject of how we were to spend the next ten or twelve weeks, we heardour papa, who is a retired captain of the Royal Navy—and who was not attending to what we weretalking about—say, as he looked across the table to mamma:“Would you object to these boys of ours taking a cruise with me ...