Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jack at Sea, by George Manville Fenn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy Author: George Manville Fenn Illustrator: W.H. Overend Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23375] Last updated: February 1, 2009 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JACK AT SEA *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England George Manville Fenn "Jack at Sea" Or all work and no play made Jack a dull boy. Chapter One. When a boy is not a boy. “Fine morning, Jack; why don’t you go and have a run?” John Meadows—always “Jack,” because his father’s name was John—upon hearing that father’s voice, raised his dull, dreamy eyes slowly from the perusal of the old Latin author over which he was bending, and looked in Sir John’s face, gazing at him inquiringly as if he had been walking with Cicero in Rome—too far away to hear the question which had fallen upon his ears like a sound which conveyed no meaning. Father and son were as much alike as a sturdy sun-browned man of forty can resemble a thin, pale youth of sixteen or so.